English Explanatory Dictionary

grammar

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
  2. The study of such a system.
  3. Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.
  4. A book describing the grammar (noun sense 1 or noun sense 2) of a language.
  5. A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
  6. A formal system defining a formal language.
  7. The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.
  8. A book describing these rules or principles; a textbook.
  9. Ellipsis of grammar school.
  10. A set of component patterns, along with the rules for connecting them, which can be combined to form more complex patterns such as large still lifes, oscillators, and spaceships.
verb
  1. To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.

Pronunciation

/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/ grăm'ər /ˈɡɹæm.ɚ/ [ˈɡɹɛəm.ɚ] [ˈɡɹæːm.ɚ] [ˈɡɹam.ɚ] en-us-grammar.ogg

Word forms

grammar grammars grammary grammer grammaring grammared

Etymology

From Middle English gramere, from Old French gramaire (“classical learning”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *grammāria, an alteration of Latin grammatica, from Ancient Greek γραμματική (grammatikḗ, “skilled in writing”), from γράμμα (grámma, “line of writing”), from γράφω (gráphō, “write”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to carve, scratch”). Displaced native Old English stæfcræft; a doublet of glamour, glamoury, gramarye, and grimoire. Piecewise doublet of grammatic.

Synonyms

glomery

Related words

glamour gramarye

Derived words

case grammar categorial grammar compositional grammar construction grammar context-free grammar cryptogrammar dependence grammar dependency grammar ethnogrammar formal grammar generative grammar grammar checker grammar cop grammarese grammarian grammar induction grammarism grammarize grammarless grammarlike grammar nazi grammar police grammar school grammeme lexicogrammar metagrammar Montague grammar natural grammar nongrammar protogrammar subgrammar transformational grammar universal grammar

Translations

Afrikaans: grammatika Albanian: gramatikë Amharic: ሰዋሰው Arabic: قَوَاعِد Arabic: نَحْو Arabic: قَواعِد Juba Arabic: kawaayid Aragonese: gramatica Aramaic: ܬܘܪܨ ܡܡܠܠܐ Aramaic: ܓܪܡܛܝܩܝ Aramaic: ܩܢܘܢܐ ܕܠܥܙܐ Armenian: քերականություն Assamese: ব্যাকৰণ Asturian: gramática Azerbaijani: qrammatika Bashkir: грамматика Basque: gramatika Belarusian: грама́тыка Bengali: ব্যাকরণ Central Bikol: balanghayan Breton: yezhadur Bulgarian: грама́тика Bulgarian: уче́бник по грама́тика Burmese: သဒ္ဒါ Carpathian Rusyn: ґрама́тіка Catalan: gramàtica Chinese Cantonese: 文法 Chinese Cantonese: 語法 /语法 Chinese: йүфа Chinese: 文法 Chinese: 語法 /语法 Eastern Min Chinese: 語法 /语法 Hakka Chinese: 語法 /语法 Chinese Mandarin: 語法 /语法 Chinese Mandarin: 文法 Wu Chinese: 語法 /语法 Chuvash: грамматика Czech: mluvnice Czech: gramatika Danish: grammatik Dutch: spraakkunst Dutch: grammatica Dutch: spraakkunstboek Esperanto: gramatiko Estonian: grammatika Estonian: keeleõpetus Faroese: mállæra Fiji Hindi: vyakaran Finnish: kielioppi Finnish: kielioppikirja French: grammaire Galician: gramática Georgian: გრამატიკა German: Grammatik German: Sprachlehre
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