GRAMMATICAL MEANING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The meaning of a word that depends on its role in a sentence; varies with inflectional form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("grammatical meaning" is a kind of...):

import; meaning; significance; signification (the message that is intended or expressed or signified)

Holonyms ("grammatical meaning" is a part of...):

closed-class word; function word (a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning)

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