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content word
con·tent word C0598600 (kŏn′tĕnt′)n. A word, such as a noun, verb, or adjective, that has a statable lexical meaning, rather than indicating a syntactic function, as a function word does.content word (ˈkɒntɛnt) n (Linguistics) a word to which an independent meaning can be given by reference to a world outside any sentence in which the word may occur. Compare function word, lexical meaningcon′tent word`
n. a word, typically a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb, that carries semantic content, bearing reference to the world independently of its use within a particular sentence (disting. from function word). [1935–40] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | content word - a word to which an independent meaning can be assignedopen-class wordword - a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"head word, headword - a content word that can be qualified by a modifiernoun - a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or actionverb - a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existencemodifier, qualifier - a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verblexical meaning - the meaning of a content word that depends on the nonlinguistic concepts it is used to express |
content word
Related to content word: function word, Grammatical wordSynonyms for content wordnoun a word to which an independent meaning can be assignedSynonymsRelated Words- word
- head word
- headword
- noun
- verb
- modifier
- qualifier
- lexical meaning
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