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has gloss(noun) a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"
word
lexicalizationeng: word
subclass of(noun) one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed
linguistic unit, language unit
Note: 17 other subclass(es) ommited in the following list
has subclass(noun) a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
anagram
has subclass(noun) a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent
anaphor
has subclass(noun) a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'"
opposite word, antonym, opposite
has subclass(noun) a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it
back-formation
has subclass(noun) a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades
charade
has subclass(noun) a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
cognate word, cognate
has subclass(noun) a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned
content word, open-class word
has subclass(noun) a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs; "words that introduce particulars of the speaker's and hearer's shared cognitive field into the message"- R.Rommetveit
deictic, deictic word
has subclass(noun) (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word; "`electricity' is a derivative of `electric'"
derivative
has subclass(noun) a word having two syllables
disyllable, dissyllable
has subclass(noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"
word form, descriptor, signifier, form
has subclass(noun) a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning
closed-class word, function word
has subclass(noun) (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
head word, head
has subclass(noun) two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation; "the word `bow' is an example of a heteronym"
heteronym
has subclass(noun) a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part; "`hat' is a holonym for `brim' and `crown'"
holonym, whole name
has subclass(noun) two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings
homonym
has subclass(noun) a word that is more specific than a given word
subordinate, subordinate word, hyponym
has subclass(noun) a significant word used in indexing or cataloging
key word
has subclass(noun) a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English
loanword, loan
has subclass(noun) a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing; "Washington is a metonym for the United States government"; "plastic is a metonym for credit card"
metonym
has subclass(noun) a word or utterance of one syllable
monosyllabic word, monosyllable
has subclass(noun) a newly invented word or phrase
coinage, neologism, neology
has subclass(noun) a word with a special meaning used for a special occasion
hapax legomenon, nonce word
has subclass(noun) word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable
oxytone
has subclass(noun) a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
palindrome
has subclass(noun) a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"
primitive
has subclass(noun) word having stress or acute accent on the next to last syllable
paroxytone
has subclass(noun) a word of more than three syllables
polysyllabic word, polysyllable
has subclass(noun) (grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as `fifteen' or `many')
quantifier
has subclass(noun) (logic) a word (such as `some' or `all' or `no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition
quantifier, logical quantifier
has subclass(noun) a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word)
reduplication
has subclass(noun) a word introduced because an existing term has become inadequate; "Nobody ever heard of analog clocks until digital clocks became common, so `analog clock' is a retronym"
retronym
has subclass(noun) two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context
synonym, equivalent word
has subclass(noun) a word or expression used for some particular thing; "he learned many medical terms"
term
has subclass(noun) a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; "legal terminology"; "biological nomenclature"; "the language of sociology"
nomenclature, language, terminology
has subclass(noun) a word having three syllables
trisyllable
has subclass(noun) a word that is spoken aloud
vocable, spoken word
has subclass(noun) a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs
classifier
has subclass(noun) a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition; "logical quantifiers, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions are called syncategoremes"
syncategorem, syncategoreme
has subclassc/Slavic words and phrases
Meaning
Afrikaans
lexicalizationafr: woord
Arabic
lexicalizationara: كلمة
Standard Arabic
lexicalizationarb: كلمة
Aragonese
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Bavarian
lexicalizationbar: Wort
Breton
lexicalizationbre: ger
Bulgarian
lexicalizationbul: дума
Catalan
lexicalizationcat: paraula
lexicalizationcat: mot
Czech
lexicalizationces: slovo
lexicalizationces: jméno
Mandarin Chinese
lexicalizationcmn: 詞
lexicalizationcmn: 词
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Welsh
lexicalizationcym: gair
Danish
lexicalizationdan: ord
German
lexicalizationdeu: Wort
lexicalizationdeu: Datenwort
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Lower Sorbian
lexicalizationdsb: słowo
Modern Greek (1453-)
lexicalizationell: λέξη
lexicalizationell: κουβέντα
lexicalizationell: λόγος
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Esperanto
lexicalizationepo: vorto
lexicalizationepo: termino
lexicalizationepo: parolo
Estonian
lexicalizationest: sõna
Basque
lexicalizationeus: hitz
lexicalizationeus: berba
Persian
lexicalizationfas: واژه
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Finnish
lexicalizationfin: sana
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French
lexicalizationfra: parole
lexicalizationfra: mot
lexicalizationfra: verbe
lexicalizationfra: terme
Western Frisian
lexicalizationfry: wurd
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Friulian
lexicalizationfur: peraule
Irish
lexicalizationgle: focal
lexicalizationgle: briathar
Galician
lexicalizationglg: palabra
Guarani
lexicalizationgrn: ñe'ẽ
Hebrew
lexicalizationheb: מִלָּה
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Croatian
lexicalizationhrv: riječ
Upper Sorbian
lexicalizationhsb: słowo
Hungarian
lexicalizationhun: szó
lexicalizationhun: ige
Ido
lexicalizationido: vorto
Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association)
lexicalizationina: parola
lexicalizationina: verbo
lexicalizationina: vocabulo
Indonesian
lexicalizationind: kata
Icelandic
lexicalizationisl: orð
Italian
lexicalizationita: parola
lexicalizationita: verbo
lexicalizationita: Parola
lexicalizationita: vocabolo
Japanese
lexicalizationjpn: 語
lexicalizationjpn: 単語
Georgian
lexicalizationkat: სიტყვა
Central Khmer
lexicalizationkhm: ពាក្យ
Korean
lexicalizationkor: 낱말
Kurdish
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Latin
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Latvian
lexicalizationlav: vārds
Lithuanian
lexicalizationlit: žodis
Lombard
lexicalizationlmo: parola
Letzeburgesch
lexicalizationltz: Wuert
Malayalam
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Macedonian
lexicalizationmkd: збор
Maltese
lexicalizationmlt: kelma
lexicalizationmlt: word
Erzya
lexicalizationmyv: вал
Neapolitan
lexicalizationnap: parola
Nauru
lexicalizationnau: dorer
Navaho
lexicalizationnav: saad
Dutch
lexicalizationnld: woord
Norwegian Bokmål
lexicalizationnob: ord
Norwegian
lexicalizationnor: ord
Novial
lexicalizationnov: vorde
Occitan (post 1500)
lexicalizationoci: paraula
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Papiamento
lexicalizationpap: palabra
Iranian Persian
lexicalizationpes: واژه
lexicalizationpes: واژِه
lexicalizationpes: کَلَمِه
Polish
lexicalizationpol: słowo
lexicalizationpol: wyraz
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Portuguese
lexicalizationpor: vocábulo
lexicalizationpor: palavra
lexicalizationpor: verbo
lexicalizationpor: word memory
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Moldavian
lexicalizationron: cuvînt
lexicalizationron: cuvânt
lexicalizationron: Cuvânt
Aromanian
lexicalizationrup: zbor
Russian
lexicalizationrus: глагол
lexicalizationrus: слово
lexicalizationrus: вокабула
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Sicilian
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Slovak
lexicalizationslk: slovo
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Slovenian
lexicalizationslv: beseda
Castilian
lexicalizationspa: palabra
Albanian
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Sranan Tongo
lexicalizationsrn: wortu
Serbian
lexicalizationsrp: reč
lexicalizationsrp: реч
Swahili (macrolanguage)
lexicalizationswa: neno
Swedish
lexicalizationswe: ord
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Telugu
lexicalizationtel: పదము
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Thai
lexicalizationtha: คำ
Turkish
lexicalizationtur: sözcük
lexicalizationtur: kelime
Vietnamese
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Volapük
lexicalizationvol: vöd
Xhosa
lexicalizationxho: igama
Eastern Yiddish
lexicalizationydd: װאָרט
Yiddish
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Chinese
lexicalizationzho: 词汇
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Zulu
lexicalizationzul: igama
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has part(noun) a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; "the word `pocket' has two syllables"
syllable
has part(noun) a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form
affix

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