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    OPEN-CLASS WORD

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A word to which an independent meaning can be assignedplay

    Synonyms:

    content word; open-class word

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

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

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

    lexical meaning (the meaning of a content word that depends on the nonlinguistic concepts it is used to express)

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

    head word; headword (a content word that can be qualified by a modifier)

    noun (a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action)

    verb (a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence)

    modifier; qualifier (a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb)

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