lexical category

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Noun

lexical category

1. (grammar) A linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question, such as noun or verb.

Synonyms

• word class
• lexical class
• part of speech

Translations

• French: partie du discours, catégorie lexicale, classe lexicale, nature

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