S: (n) 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"
S: (n) anagram (a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase)
S: (n) antigram (an anagram that means the opposite of the original word or phrase) "`restful' is the antigram of `fluster'"
S: (n) anaphor (a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent)
S: (n) antonym, opposite word, opposite (a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other) "to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'"
S: (n) direct antonym (antonyms that are commonly associated (e.g., `wet' and `dry'))
S: (n) indirect antonym (antonyms whose opposition is mediated (e.g., the antonymy of `wet' and `parched' is mediated by the similarity of `parched' to `dry'))
S: (n) paronym (a word that strongly resembles another word in spelling)
S: (n) back-formation (a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it)
S: (n) charade (a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades)
S: (n) cognate, cognate word (a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language)
S: (n) gerund (a noun formed from a verb (such as the `-ing' form of an English verb when used as a noun))
S: (n) adnoun (an adjective used as a noun) "`meek' in `blessed are the meek' is an adnoun"
S: (n) verb (a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence)
S: (n) reflexive verb (a verb whose agent performs an action that is directed at the agent) "the sentence `he washed' has a reflexive verb"; "`perjure' is a reflexive verb because you cannot perjure anyone but yourself"
S: (n) copula, copulative, linking verb (an equating verb (such as `be' or `become') that links the subject with the complement of a sentence)
S: (n) frequentative (a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action)
S: (n) intensifier, intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies) "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"
S: (n) adjective (a word that expresses an attribute of something)
S: (n) positive, positive degree (the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution)
S: (n) comparative, comparative degree (the comparative form of an adjective or adverb) "`faster' is the comparative of the adjective `fast'"; "`less famous' is the comparative degree of the adjective `famous'"; "`more surely' is the comparative of the adverb `surely'"
S: (n) superlative, superlative degree (the superlative form of an adjective or adverb) "`fastest' is the superlative of the adjective `fast'"; "`least famous' is the superlative degree of the adjective `famous'"; "`most surely' is the superlative of the adverb `surely'"
S: (n) adverb (a word that modifies something other than a noun)
S: (n) positive, positive degree (the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution)
S: (n) comparative, comparative degree (the comparative form of an adjective or adverb) "`faster' is the comparative of the adjective `fast'"; "`less famous' is the comparative degree of the adjective `famous'"; "`more surely' is the comparative of the adverb `surely'"
S: (n) superlative, superlative degree (the superlative form of an adjective or adverb) "`fastest' is the superlative of the adjective `fast'"; "`least famous' is the superlative degree of the adjective `famous'"; "`most surely' is the superlative of the adverb `surely'"
S: (n) adverbial (a word or group of words function as an adverb)
S: (n) dangling modifier, misplaced modifier (a word or phrase apparently modifying an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence: e.g., `when young' in `when young, circuses appeal to all of us')
S: (n) dangling participle (a participle (usually at the beginning of a sentence) apparently modifying a word other than the word intended: e.g., `flying across the country' in `flying across the country the Rockies came into view')
S: (n) contraction (a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds) "`won't' is a contraction of `will not'"; "`o'clock' is a contraction of `of the clock'"
S: (n) deictic, deictic word (a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs) "words that introduce particulars of the speaker's and hearer's shared cognitive field into the message"- R.Rommetveit
S: (n) derivative ((linguistics) a word that is derived from another word) "`electricity' is a derivative of `electric'"
S: (n) diminutive (a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness)
S: (n) dirty word (a word that is considered to be unmentionable) "`failure' is a dirty word to him"
S: (n) form, word form, signifier, descriptor (the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something) "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"
S: (n) apocope (abbreviation of a word by omitting the final sound or sounds) "the British get `pud' from `pudding' by apocope"
S: (n) initialism (an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately) "HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language"
S: (n) acronym, initialism (a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word) "`NATO' is an initialism for North Atlantic Treaty Organization"; "the word `scuba' is an acronym for s(elf)-c(ontained) u(nderwater) b(reathing) a(pparatus)"
S: (n) determiner, determinative (one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases)
S: (n) article ((grammar) a determiner that may indicate the specificity of reference of a noun phrase)
S: (n) definite article (a determiner (as `the' in English) that indicates specificity of reference)
S: (n) indefinite article (a determiner (as `a' or `some' in English) that indicates nonspecific reference)
S: (n) preposition (a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word)
S: (n) pronoun (a function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase)
S: (n) reciprocal pronoun (a pronoun or pronominal phrase (as `each other') that expresses a mutual action or relationship between the individuals indicated in the plural subject) "The sentence `They cared for each other' contains a reciprocal pronoun"
S: (n) relative pronoun (a pronoun (as `that' or `which' or `who') that introduces a relative clause referring to some antecedent)
S: (n) particle (a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs)
S: (n) guide word, guideword, catchword (a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page)
S: (n) head, head word ((grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent)
S: (n) headword (a word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry))
S: (n) heteronym (two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation) "the word `bow' is an example of a heteronym"
S: (n) holonym, whole name (a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part) "`hat' is a holonym for `brim' and `crown'"
S: (n) homonym (two words are homonyms if they are pronounced and spelled the same way but have different meanings)
S: (n) homograph (two words are homographs if they are spelled the same way but differ in meaning (e.g. fair))
S: (n) homophone (two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear))
S: (n) key word (a significant word used in indexing or cataloging)
S: (n) loanblend, loan-blend, hybrid (a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root))
S: (n) loanword, loan (a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English)
S: (n) meronym, part name (a word that names a part of a larger whole) "`brim' and `crown' are meronyms of `hat'"
S: (n) metonym (a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing) "Washington is a metonym for the United States government"; "plastic is a metonym for credit card"
S: (n) blend, portmanteau word, portmanteau (a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings) "`smog' is a blend of `smoke' and `fog'"; "`motel' is a portmanteau word made by combining `motor' and `hotel'"; "`brunch' is a well-known portmanteau"
S: (n) reduplication (a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word))
S: (n) retronym (a word introduced because an existing term has become inadequate) "Nobody ever heard of analog clocks until digital clocks became common, so `analog clock' is a retronym"
S: (n) gerund (a noun formed from a verb (such as the `-ing' form of an English verb when used as a noun))
S: (n) adnoun (an adjective used as a noun) "`meek' in `blessed are the meek' is an adnoun"
S: (n) synonym, equivalent word (two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context)
S: (n) term (a word or expression used for some particular thing) "he learned many medical terms"
S: (n) referent (something that refers; a term that refers to another term)
S: (n) terminology, nomenclature, language (a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline) "legal terminology"; "biological nomenclature"; "the language of sociology"
S: (n) markup language (a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document)
S: (n) standard generalized markup language, SGML ((computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents; a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adopted)
S: (n) classifier (a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs)
S: (n) written word (the written form of a word) "while the spoken word stands for something, the written word stands for something that stands for something"; "a craftsman of the written word"
S: (n) bigram (a word that is written with two letters in an alphabetic writing system)
S: (n) trigram (a word that is written with three letters in an alphabetic writing system)
S: (n) tetragram (a word that is written with four letters in an alphabetic writing system)
S: (n) Tetragrammaton (four Hebrew letters usually transliterated as YHWH (Yahweh) or JHVH (Jehovah) signifying the Hebrew name for God which the Jews regarded as too holy to pronounce)
S: (n) syncategorem, syncategoreme (a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition) "logical quantifiers, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions are called syncategoremes"
S: (n) solfa syllable (one of the names for notes of a musical scale in solmization)
S: (n) do, doh, ut (the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization)
S: (n) re, ray (the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization)
S: (n) mi (the syllable naming the third (mediant) note of any major scale in solmization)
S: (n) fa (the syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization)
S: (n) sol, soh, so (the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization)
S: (n) la, lah (the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization)
S: (n) ti, te, si (the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization)
S: (n) lexeme (a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go')
S: (n) morpheme (minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units)
S: (n) allomorph (a variant phonological representation of a morpheme) "the final sounds of `bets' and `beds' and `horses' and `oxen' are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme"
S: (n) morphophoneme ((linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme)
S: (n) infix (an affix that is inserted inside the word)
S: (n) classifier (a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs)
S: (n) ending, termination (the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)) "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending"
S: (n) geographical indication, GI ((law) a name or sign used on certain products which corresponds to a specific geographical location or origin)
S: (n) appellation (a geographical indication used to identify where the grapes for a wine are grown)
S: (n) patronymic, patronym (a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor))
S: (n) street name (an alternative name that a person chooses or is given (especially in inner city neighborhoods)) "her street name is Bonbon"
S: (n) nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname (a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)) "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim"
S: (n) title, title of respect, form of address (an identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. `Mr.' or `General') "the professor didn't like his friends to use his formal title"
S: (n) Aga, Agha (title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey))
S: (n) Defender of the Faith (a title that Leo X bestowed on Henry VIII and later withdrew; parliament restored the title and it has been used by English sovereigns ever since)
S: (n) Don (a Spanish courtesy title or form of address for men that is prefixed to the forename) "Don Roberto"
S: (n) Dona (a Spanish courtesy title or form of address for a woman) "Dona Marguerita"
S: (n) Frau (a German courtesy title or form of address for an adult woman)
S: (n) Fraulein (a German courtesy title or form of address for an unmarried woman)
S: (n) Hakham (a Hebrew title of respect for a wise and highly educated man)
S: (n) Herr (a German courtesy title or form of address for a man)
S: (n) Miss (a form of address for an unmarried woman)
S: (n) Senor (a Spanish title or form of address for a man; similar to the English `Mr' or `sir')
S: (n) Senora (a Spanish title or form of address for a married woman; similar to the English `Mrs' or `madam')
S: (n) Senorita (a Spanish title or form of address used to or of an unmarried girl or woman; similar to the English `Miss')
S: (n) Signora (an Italian title or form of address for a married woman)
S: (n) Signorina (an Italian title or form of address for an unmarried woman)
S: (n) Very Reverend (a title of respect for various ecclesiastical officials (as cathedral deans and canons and others))
S: (n) Father, Padre (`Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military)
S: (n) title (an appellation signifying nobility) "`your majesty' is the appropriate title to use in addressing a king"
S: (n) Lordship (a title used to address any British peer except a duke and extended to a bishop or a judge) "Your Lordship"; "His Lordship"
S: (n) Ladyship (a title used to address any peeress except a duchess) "Your Ladyship"; "Her Ladyship"
S: (n) pet name, hypocorism (a name of endearment (especially one using a diminutive suffix)) "`Billy' is a hypocorism for `William'"
S: (n) title (the name of a work of art or literary composition etc.) "he looked for books with the word `jazz' in the title"; "he refused to give titles to his paintings"; "I can never remember movie titles"
S: (n) masthead (the title of a newspaper or magazine; usually printed on the front page and on the editorial page)
S: (n) rubric (a title or heading that is printed in red or in a special type)
S: (n) domain name (strings of letters and numbers (separated by periods) that are used to name organizations and computers and addresses on the internet) "domain names are organized hierarchically with the more generic parts to the right"
S: (n) label, recording label (trade name of a company that produces musical recordings) "the artists and repertoire department of a recording label is responsible for finding new talent"
S: (n) phone, speech sound, sound ((phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language)
S: (n) phoneme ((linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language)
S: (n) allophone ((linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme)
S: (n) sign (a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified) "The bond between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary"--de Saussure
S: (n) part, portion, component part, component, constituent (something determined in relation to something that includes it) "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton"
S: (n) relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)