part of speech (redirected from Lexical category)

part of speech

n. pl. parts of speech

1. One of a group of traditional classifications of words according to their functions in context, including the noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection, and sometimes the article.

2. A word considered as a part of speech.

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part of speech

n

(Linguistics / Grammar) a class of words sharing important syntactic or semantic features; a group of words in a language that may occur in similar positions or fulfil similar functions in a sentence. The chief parts of speech in English are noun, pronoun, adjective, determiner, adverb, verb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection Abbreviation POS

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

part of speech - one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context form class, word class grammatical category, syntactic category - (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties major form class - any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar

Translations

part of speech n (Gram) → parte del discorso