part of speech

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

Noun

Grammar a class of words, such as a noun, verb, or adjective, sharing important syntactic or semantic features

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 (Ling) → partie f du discours