#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"
supertype: language_unit__linguistic_unit one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed
part: syllable affix
equal: word (pm)
subtype: anagram a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
subtype: antigram an anagram that means the opposite of the original word or phrase; "`restful' is the antigram of `fluster'"
subtype: anaphor a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent
subtype: antonym__opposite_word__opposite two words that express opposing concepts; "to him the opposite of gay was depressed"
subtype: direct_antonym antonyms that are commonly associated (e.g., `wet' and `dry')
subtype: indirect_antonym antonyms whose opposition is mediated (e.g., the antonymy of `wet' and `parched' is mediated by the similarity of `parched' to `dry')
subtype: back-formation a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it
subtype: portmanteau_word__portmanteauword__blend__portmanteau a word formed by joining two others (e.g., `smog' is a blend of `smoke' and `fog')
subtype: charade a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades
subtype: cognate_word__cognateword__cognate a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
subtype: content_word__contentword__open-class_word a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned
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'
subtype: contraction a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds: "won't" from "will not"; "o'clock" from "of the clock"
subtype: deictic_word__deicticword__deictic a word specifying identity or spacial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs: "words that introduce particulars of the speaker's and hearer's shared cognitive field into the message"- R.Rommetveit
subtype: derivative (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word; "`electricity' is a derivative of `electric'"
subtype: diminutive a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness
subtype: disyllable__dissyllable a word having two syllables
subtype: word_form__form__signifier the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"
subtype: plural_form__plural the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
subtype: singular_form__singular the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton
subtype: ghost_word__ghostword a word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an error
subtype: root_word__root__base__stem__theme__radical (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
subtype: etymon__root a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
subtype: citation_form__main_entry_word__entry_word__entryword the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary
subtype: abbreviation.word_form a shortened form of a word or phrase
subtype: apocope abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds; "the British get `pud' from `pudding' by apocope"
subtype: acronym a word formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name
subtype: four-letter_word__four-letter_Anglo-Saxon_word any of several short English words (often having 4 letters) generally regarded as obscene or offensive
subtype: function_word__closed-class_word a word that serves a grammatical function but has no identifiable meaning
subtype: determiner__determinative one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases
subtype: article.determiner (Grammar) a determiner that may indicate the specificity of reference of a noun phrase
subtype: definite_article a determiner (as `the' in English) that indicates specificity of reference
subtype: indefinite_article a determiner (as `a' or `some' in English) that indicates non-specificity of reference
subtype: preposition a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word
subtype: pronoun a function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase
subtype: anaphoric_pronoun__anaphoricpronoun a pronoun that refers to an antecedent
subtype: demonstrative_pronoun__demonstrative a pronoun that points out an intended referent
subtype: personal_pronoun a pronoun expressing a distinction of person
subtype: reflexive_pronoun__reflexivepronoun__reflexive a personal pronoun compounded with -self to show the agent's action affects itself
subtype: relative_pronoun a pronoun (as `that' or `which' or `who') that introduces a relative clause referring to some antecedent
subtype: conjunctive__conjunction__connective an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
subtype: coordinating_conjunction a conjunction (like `and' or `or') that connects two identically constructed grammatical constituents
subtype: subordinate_conjunction__subordinateconjunction__subordinating_conjunction__subordinatingconjunction a conjunction (like `since' or `that' or `who') that introduces a dependent clause
subtype: particle.function_word a function word having different uses in different languages
subtype: head_word__head (linguistics) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
subtype: headword a word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry)
subtype: heteronym two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation (e.g. `bow')
subtype: holonym__wholename a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part; "`hat' is a holonym for `brim' and `crown'"
subtype: homonym two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings
subtype: homograph two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair)
subtype: homophone two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
subtype: hypernym__superordinate__superordinate_word__superordinateword a word that is more generic than a given word
subtype: hyponym__subordinate_word__subordinateword a word that is more specific than a given word
subtype: key_word__keyword a significant word used in indexing or cataloging
subtype: loanblend__hybrid a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)
subtype: loanword__loan a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English
subtype: Gallicism a word or phrase borrowed from French
subtype: meronym__part_name a word that names a part of a larger whole; "`brim' and `crown' are meronyms of `hat'"
subtype: metonym a word that is used metonymically; a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing
subtype: monosyllable__monosyllabic_word a word or utterance of one syllable
subtype: neology__neologism__coinage a newly invented word or phrase
subtype: nonce_word__nonceword__hapax_legomenon__hapaxlegomenon a word with a special meaning used for a special occasion
subtype: oxytone word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable
subtype: palindrome a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
subtype: primitive a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"
subtype: paroxytone word having stress or acute accent on the next to last syllable
subtype: partitive word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole
subtype: polysemant__polysemantic_word__polysemous_word a word having more than one meaning
subtype: polysyllable__polysyllabic_word a word of more than three syllables
subtype: jawbreaker a word that is hard to pronounce
subtype: sesquipedalian__sesquipedalia a very long word (a foot and a half long)
subtype: proparoxytone word having stress or acute accent on the antepenult
subtype: quantifier (grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as `fifteen' or `many')
subtype: universal_quantifier__universalquantifier a logical quantifier of a proposition that asserts that the proposition is true for all members of a class of things
subtype: logical_quantifier__logicalquantifier__quantifier (logic) a word (such as `some' or `all` or `no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition
subtype: existential_quantifier__existentialquantifier__existential_operator__existentialoperator a logical quantifier of a proposition that asserts the existence of at least one thing for which the proposition is true
subtype: substantive a noun or a pronoun that is used in place of a noun
subtype: noun a word that can be used to refer to a person or place or thing
subtype: syncategorem (logic) a term that cannot be used meaningfully in isolation
subtype: synonym__equivalent_word two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context
subtype: term a word or expression used for some particular thing; "he learned many medical terms"
subtype: referent.term something that refers; a term that refers to another term
subtype: terminology__nomenclature__language a system of words used in a particular discipline; "legal terminology"; "the language of sociology"
subtype: markup_language a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document
subtype: standard_generalized_markup_language__SGML (computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents; a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adopted
subtype: HTML__hypertext_markup_language a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents
subtype: XML the language for describing XML-based languages; see http://www.w3.org/XML
subtype: XML_based_language__XML_based_notation any notation following an XML schema; see http://www.w3.org/
subtype: XHTML description in http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
subtype: SVG Scalable Vector Graphics; description in http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
subtype: RDF/XML XML notation for the RDF model
instance: RDF_syntax_of_22-02-1999
subtype: PNML the PNML language
subtype: EPNML
subtype: PNK
subtype: trisyllable a word having three syllables
subtype: troponym__manner_name a word that denotes a manner of doing something; "`march' is a troponym of `walk'"
subtype: vocable__spokenword a word that is spoken aloud
subtype: classifier.word a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class in which an item belongs
subtype: written_word__writtenword the written form of a word
subtype: bigram a word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system
subtype: trigram a word that is written with three letters in an alphabetic writing system
subtype: tetragram a word that is written with four letters in an alphabetic writing system
instance: Tetragrammaton
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