ANAPHOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anaphor mean? 

• ANAPHOR (noun)
  The noun ANAPHOR has 1 sense:

1. a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent

  Familiarity information: ANAPHOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANAPHOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("anaphor" is a kind of...):

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