open compound

English

Noun

open compound (plural open compounds)

1. (grammar) A compound word or term with spaces in it (for example, hang out, school bus, science fiction); the overall term may contain a smaller open compound adjunct (that is, a noun phrase in attributive position), as with school bus and school bus traffic stop laws.

   Hypernyms: compound, compound word, collocation

   Coordinate term: closed compound

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: erikseen kirjoitettu yhdyssana (but note that Finnish has no open compounds)
• German: offenes Kompositum n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: különírt összetétel (rare)
• Polish: zestawienie (pl) n, złożenie (pl) n