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WORD STRUCTURE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does word structure mean?
• WORD STRUCTURE (noun)
The noun WORD STRUCTURE has 1 sense:
1. the admissible arrangement of sounds in words
Familiarity information: WORD STRUCTURE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The admissible arrangement of sounds in words
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
morphology; sound structure; syllable structure; word structure
Hypernyms ("word structure" is a kind of...):
structure (the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "word structure"):
affixation (the result of adding an affix to a root word)
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