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A word, such as a noun, verb, or adjective, that has a statable lexical meaning, rather than indicating a syntactic function, as a function word does.

content word [ˈkɒntɛnt]

(Linguistics) a word to which an independent meaning can be given by reference to a world outside any sentence in which the word may occur Compare function word, lexical meaning

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content word - a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned

open-class word

word - 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"

head word, headword - a content word that can be qualified by a modifier

noun - a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action

verb - a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence

modifier, qualifier - a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb

lexical meaning - the meaning of a content word that depends on the nonlinguistic concepts it is used to express

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