English > word: 11 senses > noun 1, communicationMeaning | A unit of language that native speakers can identify. |
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Examples | - "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"
- "he hardly said ten words all morning"
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Parts | affix | A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form |
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syllable | A unit of spoken language larger / larger than a phoneme |
Narrower | anagram | A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase |
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anaphor | A word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition |
antonym, opposite word, opposite | A word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other |
back-formation | A word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar / familiar word derives from it |
charade | A word acted out in an episode of the game / game of charades |
classifier | 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 |
cognate, cognate word | A word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language |
content word, open-class word | A word to which an independent meaning / meaning can be assigned |
contraction | A word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds |
deictic, deictic word | 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 |
derivative | (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word |
diminutive | A word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness |
dirty word | A word that is considered to be unmentionable |
disyllable, dissyllable | A word having two syllables |
form, word form, signifier, descriptor | The phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something |
four-letter word, four-letter Anglo-Saxon word | Any of several short / short English words (often having 4 letters) generally regarded as obscene / obscene or offensive |
function word, closed-class word | A word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning / meaning |
guide word, guideword, catchword | A word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page |
head, head word | (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent |
headword | A word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry) |
heteronym | Two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation |
holonym, whole name | A word that names the whole of which a given word is a part |
homonym | Two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings |
hypernym, superordinate, superordinate word | A word that is more generic than a given word |
hyponym, subordinate, subordinate word | A word that is more specific than a given word |
key word | A significant word used in indexing or cataloging |
loanblend, loan-blend, hybrid | A word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., 'monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root) |
loanword, loan | A word borrowed from another language |
meronym, part name | A word that names a part of a larger whole |
metonym | A word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing |
monosyllable, monosyllabic word | A word or utterance of one syllable |
neologism, neology, coinage | A newly invented word or phrase |
nonce word, hapax legomenon | A word with a special meaning / meaning used for a special occasion |
oxytone | word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable |
palindrome | A word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward |
paronym | A word that strongly resembles another word in spelling |
paroxytone | word having stress or acute accent on the next to last syllable |
partitive | word (such a 'some' or 'less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole |
polysemant, polysemantic word, polysemous word | A word having more than one meaning / meaning |
polysyllable, polysyllabic word | A word of more than three syllables |
primitive | A word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms |
proparoxytone | word having stress or acute accent on the antepenult |
quantifier | (grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as 'fifteen' or 'many') |
quantifier, logical quantifier | (logic) a word (such as 'some' or 'all' or 'no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition |
reduplication | A word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word) |
retronym | A word introduced because an existing term has become inadequate |
substantive | Any word or group of words functioning as a noun |
syncategorem, syncategoreme | A syncategorematic expression |
synonym, equivalent word | Two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context |
term | A word or expression used for some particular thing |
terminology, nomenclature, language | A system of words used to name things in a particular discipline |
trisyllable | A word having three syllables |
troponym, manner name | A word that denotes a manner of doing something |
vocable, spoken word | A word that is spoken aloud |
written word | The written form / form of a word |
Broader | language unit, linguistic unit | One of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed |
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Spanish | palabra, vocablo |
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Catalan | mot, paraula |
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Adjectives | lexical | of or relating to words |
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nonlexical | not relating to words |
verbal | of or relating to or formed from words in general |
Verbs | word | put into words or an expression |
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English > word: 11 senses > noun 5, communicationMeaning | An exchange of views on some topic. |
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Example | "we had a word or two about it" |
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Synonyms | discussion, give-and-take |
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Narrower | argument, argumentation, debate | A discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal |
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conference, group discussion | A discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic |
deliberation | (usually plural) discussion of all sides of a question |
negotiation, dialogue, talks | A discussion intended to produce an agreement |
panel discussion | discussion of a subject / subject of public interest by a group of persons forming a panel usually before an audience |
postmortem, post-mortem | discussion of an event after it has occurred |
public discussion, ventilation | Free and open discussion of (or debate on) some question of public interest |
Broader | speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, language, voice communication, oral communication | (language) communication by word of mouth |
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Spanish | debate, discusión, intercambio, palabra |
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Catalan | debat, discussió |
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English > Word: 11 senses > noun 10, communicationMeaning | The sacred writings of the Christian religions. |
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Synonyms | Bible, Christian Bible, Book, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word of God |
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Category of | Gabriel | (Bible) the archangel who was the messenger of God |
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Noah's flood, Noachian deluge, Noah and the Flood, the Flood | (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah |
covenant | (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return |
demythologize, demythologise | Remove the mythical element from (writings) |
eisegesis | personal interpretation of a text (especially of the Bible) using your own ideas |
exegesis | An explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible) |
Instances | American Standard Version, American Revised Version | A revised version of the King James Version |
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Authorized Version, King James Version, King James Bible | An English translation of the Bible published in 1611 |
Douay Bible, Douay Version, Douay-Rheims Bible, Douay-Rheims Version, Rheims-Douay Bible, Rheims-Douay Version | An English translation of the Vulgate by Roman Catholic scholars |
New English Bible | A modern English version / version of the Bible and Apocrypha |
Revised Standard Version | A revision of the American Standard Version |
Revised Version | A British revision of the Authorized Version |
Vulgate | The Latin edition of the Bible translated from Hebrew and Greek mainly by St. Jerome at the end of the 4th century |
Parts | New Testament | The collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation |
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Old Testament | The collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people |
Testament | Either of the two main parts of the Christian Bible |
text | A passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon |
Narrower | family Bible | A large Bible with pages to record marriages and births |
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Broader | sacred text, sacred writing, religious writing, religious text | writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity |
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Spanish | Biblia cristiana, biblia, Biblia, el buen libro, La Biblia, la palabra, las escrituras, las sagradas escrituras, Libro |
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Catalan | biblia, Biblia, bíblia, Bíblia, La Bíblia |
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