#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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