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function word
function wordn. A word, such as a preposition, a conjunction, or an article, that has little semantic content of its own and chiefly indicates a grammatical relationship. Also called form word, functor.function word n (Grammar) grammar a word, such as the, with a particular grammatical role but little identifiable meaning. Compare content word, grammatical meaning func′tion word`
n. a word, as a preposition, conjunction, or article, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships and has little semantic content of its own (disting. from content word). [1935–40] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | function word - a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaningclosed-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"determinative, determiner - one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrasespreposition - a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other wordpronoun - a function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phraseconjunctive, connective, continuative, conjunction - an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentencesparticle - a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbsgrammatical meaning - the meaning of a word that depends on its role in a sentence; varies with inflectional form |
Translationsfunction word
Synonyms for function wordnoun a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaningSynonymsRelated Words- word
- determinative
- determiner
- preposition
- pronoun
- conjunctive
- connective
- continuative
- conjunction
- particle
- grammatical meaning
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