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STRING OF WORDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does string of words mean? 

STRING OF WORDS (noun)
  The noun STRING OF WORDS has 1 sense:

1. a linear sequence of words as spoken or writtenplay

  Familiarity information: STRING OF WORDS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STRING OF WORDS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A linear sequence of words as spoken or written

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

linguistic string; string of words; word string

Hypernyms ("string of words" is a kind of...):

language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)

string (a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "string of words"):

sentence (a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language)

syntagm; syntagma (a syntactic string of words that forms a part of some larger syntactic unit)


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