functional shift
noun
: the process by which a word or form comes to be used in another grammatical function
Word History
First Known Use
1930, in the meaning defined above
- fortune line
- fortune teller
- fortune tellers
- fortune-tell
- fortune-teller
- fortune-tellers
- fortune-telling
- fortune-tellings
- fortuned
- fortuneless
- Fortunella
- fortunellae
- fortunellas
- fortunes
- fortunetellers
- fortunetellings
- fortuning
- forty
- Forty Hours
- forty winks
- forty-eight
- forty-eighter
- forty-eighth
- forty-eightmo
- forty-fifth