word class
English
Noun
word class (plural word classes)
- (linguistics) A linguistic form class whose members are words.
- 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes[1], page 297:
- These lists differentiated terms according to word class (that is, a word with both a noun and adjective definition counted as two separate items in the list).
Hyponyms
- (linguistics): part of speech
References
- “word class”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
word class on Wikipedia.Wikipedia