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    CLOSED-CLASS WORD

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaningplay

    Synonyms:

    closed-class word; function word

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("closed-class word" is a kind of...):

    word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)

    Meronyms (parts of "closed-class word"):

    grammatical meaning (the meaning of a word that depends on its role in a sentence; varies with inflectional form)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "closed-class word"):

    determinative; determiner (one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases)

    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)

    pronoun (a function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase)

    conjunction; conjunctive; connective; continuative (an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences)

    particle (a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs)

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