compound word

English

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Noun

compound word (plural compound words)

1. (linguistics) A word composed of two or more stems. Examples include pancake, two-tone, and school bus – it may or may not have a space or hyphen.

Synonyms

• compound

Hyponyms

• closed compound
• hyphenated compound
• open compound

Translations

word composed of others

Armenian: բարդ բառ (hy) (bard baṙ) Chinese: Mandarin: 複合詞 (zh), 复合词 (zh) (fùhécí) Dutch: samenstelling (nl) f. Finnish: yhdyssana (fi) French: mot composé (fr) m. German: Kompositum (de) n. Hungarian: összetett szó (hu) Italian: parola composta (it) f. Japanese: 複合語 (ja) (ふくごうご, fukugōgo)

Korean: 합성어 (ko) (hapseong-eo) (合成語 (ko)) Lithuanian: žodžių junginys (lt) m. Manx: co-ockle (gv) m. Russian: сложное слово (ru) (slóžnoje slóvo) n. Serbian: složenica (sr) Spanish: palabra compuesta (es) f. Swedish: sammansättning (sv) c., sammansatt ord (sv) n. Turkish: birleşik sözcük (tr), birleşik kelime (tr) Ukrainian: складне слово (uk) (skladné slóvo) n. Walloon: mot d' aplacaedje (wa)

External links

• Compound Words: When to Hyphenate