WORD STRING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does word string mean? 

• WORD STRING (noun)
  The noun WORD STRING has 1 sense:

1. a linear sequence of words as spoken or written

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORD STRING (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 ("word string" 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 "word string"):

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)