| NOUN | communication | syntactic category, grammatical category | (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties |
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| Meaning | (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties. | |
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| Synonym | grammatical category | |
| Category | grammar | The branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics) |
| Narrower | case, grammatical case | Nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence |
| gender, grammatical gender | A grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives | |
| number | The grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural) | |
| part of speech, form class, word class | One of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context | |
| person | A grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party | |
| semantic role, participant role | (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause | |
| tense | A grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time | |
| Broader | class, category, family | A collection of things sharing a common attribute |
| Spanish | categoría gramatical, categoría sintáctica | |
| Catalan | categoria gramatical, categoria sintàctica | |
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