open-class word

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Noun

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