compound word
Noun
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Noun
compound word (plural compound words)
- (linguistics) A word composed of two or more stems. Examples include pancake, two-tone
and school bus – in English, it may or may not have a space or hyphen.
- French: mot composé
- German: Zusammensetzung, Kompositum, Bandwurmwort (colloquial)
- Italian: parola composta
- Portuguese: palavra composta
- Russian: сло́жное сло́во
- Spanish: palabra compuesta
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