GRAMMATICAL MEANING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grammatical meaning mean? 

• GRAMMATICAL MEANING (noun)
  The noun GRAMMATICAL MEANING has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: GRAMMATICAL MEANING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAMMATICAL MEANING (noun)

Sense 1

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)