English Explanatory Dictionary

function word

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, including conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, certain frequent adverbs.

Word forms

function word function words

Synonyms

functor grammatical word

Antonyms

content word lexical word
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