1a unit of language that native speakers can identify
- words are the blocks from which sentences are made
- he hardly said ten words all morning
Hyponymsanagram, anaphor, antonym, back-formation, charade, classifier, cognate, content word, contraction, deictic, derivative, diminutive, dirty word, disyllable, form, four-letter word, function word, guide word, head, headword, heteronym, holonym, homonym, hypernym, hyponym, key word, loanblend, loanword, meronym, metonym, monosyllable, neologism, nonce word, oxytone, palindrome, paroxytone, partitive, polysemant, polysyllable, primitive, proparoxytone, quantifier, reduplication, retronym, substantive, syncategorem, synonym, term, terminology, trisyllable, troponym, vocable, written word,
Hypernymslanguage unit,
Meronymsaffix, syllable,
Partsaffix, syllable,
Type oflanguage unit, linguistic unit,
Typesanagram, anaphor, antonym, back-formation, charade, classifier, closed-class word, cognate, cognate word, coinage, content word, contraction, deictic, deictic word, derivative, descriptor, diminutive, dirty word, dissyllable, disyllable, equivalent word, form, four-letter Anglo-Saxon word, four-letter word, function word, hapax legomenon, head, head word, headword, heteronym, holonym, homonym, hybrid, hypernym, hyponym, key word, language, loan, loanblend, loan-blend, loanword, logical quantifier, manner name, meronym, metonym, monosyllabic word, monosyllable, neologism, neology, nomenclature, nonce word, open-class word, opposite, opposite word, oxytone, palindrome, paroxytone, part name, partitive, polysemant, polysemantic word, polysemous word, polysyllabic word, polysyllable, primitive, proparoxytone, quantifier, reduplication, signifier, spoken word, subordinate, subordinate word, substantive, superordinate, superordinate word, syncategorem, syncategoreme, synonym, term, terminology, trisyllable, troponym, vocable, whole name, word form, written word,
See alsolexical, nonlexical, verbal,