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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. One of a group of traditional classifications of words according to their functions in context, including the noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection, and sometimes the article.
  2. n. A word considered as a part of speech.

Wiktionary

  1. n. grammar A linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Gram.) a sort or class of words of a particular character.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context

Examples

  • “In the other passages where proskuneo occurs the case is not shown on account of some other part of speech being used with the verb.”

    Commentary on Revelation

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. lexical class
  1. word class
  1. syntactic category
  1. lexical category

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. grammatical category
  1. syntactic category

hyponyms (1)

Words that are more specific

  1. major form class

reverse dictionary (58)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. h
  2. relational
  3. synecdoche
  4. word
  5. particle
  6. enallage
  7. cut
  8. incoherent
  9. hereinafter
  10. catastasis
  11. Gettysburg Address
  1. glide
  2. generally
  3. gag
  4. antimeria
  5. letter-perfect
  6. pronoun
  7. pronominal
  8. exordium
  9. interjection
  10. verb
  11. noun
  1. thereinafter
  2. form
  3. adenoid
  4. adverb
  5. approximant
  6. part of speech
  7. shift
  8. part-of-speech tagger
  9. personation
  10. pos tagger
  11. adjective
  1. article
  2. category
  3. summation
  4. parse
  5. conjunction
  6. isolating
  7. portrayal
  8. characterization
  9. enactment
  10. participle
  11. passage
  1. proposition
  2. substantive
  3. disinterested
  4. elide
  5. elision
  6. formative
  7. gesticulate
  8. incoherence
  9. mode
  10. peroration
  11. phrase
  1. preposition
  2. silent
  3. syllable

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