English Explanatory Dictionary

lexical category

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question, such as nouns or verbs.

Word forms

lexical category lexical categories

Synonyms

word class lexical class part of speech
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