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FORM CLASS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does form class mean?
• FORM CLASS (noun)
The noun FORM CLASS has 1 sense:
1. one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context
Familiarity information: FORM CLASS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
form class; part of speech; word class
Hypernyms ("form class" is a kind of...):
grammatical category; syntactic category ((grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "form class"):
major form class (any of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar)
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