English Explanatory Dictionary

part of speech

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

part of speech parts of speech

Etymology

From Middle English parte of spech, a calque of Latin pars ōrātiōnis.

Synonyms

lexical category lexical class syntactic category word class
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