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WORD CLASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context
Synonyms:
form class; part of speech; word class
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("word class" is a kind of...):
grammatical category; syntactic category ((grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "word class"):
major form class (any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar)
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