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word class

(Linguistics) Linguistics a form class in which the members are words See part of speech

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word class - one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context

form class, part of speech

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

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