#content_word__contentword__open-class_word  a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned
  supertype:  word  a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"
  part:  lexical_meaning
  subtype:  headword.content_word__head_word  a word that is qualified by a modifier
  subtype:  noun  a word that can be used to refer to a person or place or thing
     subtype:  mass_noun  a noun that does not form plurals
     subtype:  count_noun__countnoun  a noun that forms plurals
     subtype:  proper_noun__proper_name  a noun that denotes a particular thing; usually capitalized
     subtype:  common_noun  a noun that denotes any or all members of a class
        subtype:  verbal_noun__deverbal_noun  a noun that is derived from a verb
           subtype:  gerund  a noun formed from a verb (such as the `-ing' form of an English verb when used as a noun)
        subtype:  adnoun  an adjective used as a noun; "`meek' in `blessed are the meek' is an adnoun"
  subtype:  verb.content_word  a content word that denotes an action or a state
     subtype:  copula__copulative__linking_verb__linkingverb  an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence
  subtype:  modifier.content_word__qualifier  a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb
     subtype:  intensifier__intensive  a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"
     subtype:  adjective  a word that expresses an attribute of something
        subtype:  descriptive_adjective__descriptiveadjective__qualifying_adjective  an adjective that ascribes to its noun the value of an attribute of that noun (e.g., `a nervous person' or `a musical speaking voice')
        subtype:  relational_adjective__classifying_adjective__classifyingadjective  an adjective that classifies its noun (e.g., `a nervous disease' or `a musical instrument')
           subtype:  pertainym  (informal) meaning relating to or pertaining to
        subtype:  comparative  the comparative form of an adjective; "`better' is the comparative of `good'"
        subtype:  superlative.adjective  the superlative form of an adjective; "`best' is the superlative form of `good'"
     subtype:  adverb.modifier  a word that modifies something other than a noun
        subtype:  adverbial  a word or group of words function as an adverb
     subtype:  dangling_modifier__misplaced_modifier__misplacedmodifier  a word or phrase apparently modifying an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence: e.g., `when young' in `when young, circuses appeal to all of us'
        subtype:  dangling_participle  a participle (usually at the beginning of a sentence) apparently modifying a word other than the word intended: e.g., `flying across the country' in `flying across the country the Rockies came into view'

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