compound word

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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 (cmn), 复合词 (cmn) (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
• Serbo-Croatian: složenica (sh)
• Spanish: palabra compuesta (es) f
• Swedish: sammansättning (sv) c, sammansatt ord (sv) n
• Telugu: సమాసము (te)
• 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