semiword

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The initial or final constituent of compounds that cannot occur outside the domain of compounds, i.e., they are not freely combinable with words or phrases into syntactic constituents, but can undergo coordination reduction in both directions.

Word forms

semiword semiwords

Etymology

From semi- + word.

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