English > word: 11 senses > noun 1, communication| Meaning | A unit of language that native speakers can identify. |
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| Examples | - "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"
- "he hardly said ten words all morning"
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| Parts | affix | A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form |
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| syllable | A unit of spoken language larger / larger than a phoneme |
| Narrower | anagram | A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase |
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| anaphor | A word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition |
| antonym, opposite word, opposite | A word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other |
| back-formation | A word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar / familiar word derives from it |
| charade | A word acted out in an episode of the game / game of charades |
| classifier | A word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs |
| cognate, cognate word | A word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language |
| content word, open-class word | A word to which an independent meaning / meaning can be assigned |
| contraction | A word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds |
| deictic, deictic word | A word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs |
| derivative | (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word |
| diminutive | A word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness |
| dirty word | A word that is considered to be unmentionable |
| disyllable, dissyllable | A word having two syllables |
| form, word form, signifier, descriptor | The phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something |
| four-letter word, four-letter Anglo-Saxon word | Any of several short / short English words (often having 4 letters) generally regarded as obscene / obscene or offensive |
| function word, closed-class word | A word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning / meaning |
| guide word, guideword, catchword | A word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page |
| head, head word | (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent |
| headword | A word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry) |
| heteronym | Two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation |
| holonym, whole name | A word that names the whole of which a given word is a part |
| homonym | Two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings |
| hypernym, superordinate, superordinate word | A word that is more generic than a given word |
| hyponym, subordinate, subordinate word | A word that is more specific than a given word |
| key word | A significant word used in indexing or cataloging |
| loanblend, loan-blend, hybrid | A word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., 'monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root) |
| loanword, loan | A word borrowed from another language |
| meronym, part name | A word that names a part of a larger whole |
| metonym | A word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing |
| monosyllable, monosyllabic word | A word or utterance of one syllable |
| neologism, neology, coinage | A newly invented word or phrase |
| nonce word, hapax legomenon | A word with a special meaning / meaning used for a special occasion |
| oxytone | word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable |
| palindrome | A word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward |
| paronym | A word that strongly resembles another word in spelling |
| paroxytone | word having stress or acute accent on the next to last syllable |
| partitive | word (such a 'some' or 'less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole |
| polysemant, polysemantic word, polysemous word | A word having more than one meaning / meaning |
| polysyllable, polysyllabic word | A word of more than three syllables |
| primitive | A word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms |
| proparoxytone | word having stress or acute accent on the antepenult |
| quantifier | (grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as 'fifteen' or 'many') |
| quantifier, logical quantifier | (logic) a word (such as 'some' or 'all' or 'no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition |
| reduplication | A word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word) |
| retronym | A word introduced because an existing term has become inadequate |
| substantive | Any word or group of words functioning as a noun |
| syncategorem, syncategoreme | A syncategorematic expression |
| synonym, equivalent word | Two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context |
| term | A word or expression used for some particular thing |
| terminology, nomenclature, language | A system of words used to name things in a particular discipline |
| trisyllable | A word having three syllables |
| troponym, manner name | A word that denotes a manner of doing something |
| vocable, spoken word | A word that is spoken aloud |
| written word | The written form / form of a word |
| Broader | language unit, linguistic unit | One of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed |
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| Spanish | palabra, vocablo |
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| Catalan | mot, paraula |
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| Adjectives | lexical | of or relating to words |
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| nonlexical | not relating to words |
| verbal | of or relating to or formed from words in general |
| Verbs | word | put into words or an expression |
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English > word: 11 senses > noun 5, communication| Meaning | An exchange of views on some topic. |
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| Example | "we had a word or two about it" |
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| Synonyms | discussion, give-and-take |
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| Narrower | argument, argumentation, debate | A discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal |
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| conference, group discussion | A discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic |
| deliberation | (usually plural) discussion of all sides of a question |
| negotiation, dialogue, talks | A discussion intended to produce an agreement |
| panel discussion | discussion of a subject / subject of public interest by a group of persons forming a panel usually before an audience |
| postmortem, post-mortem | discussion of an event after it has occurred |
| public discussion, ventilation | Free and open discussion of (or debate on) some question of public interest |
| Broader | speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, language, voice communication, oral communication | (language) communication by word of mouth |
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| Spanish | debate, discusión, intercambio, palabra |
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| Catalan | debat, discussió |
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English > Word: 11 senses > noun 10, communication| Meaning | The sacred writings of the Christian religions. |
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| Synonyms | Bible, Christian Bible, Book, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word of God |
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| Category of | Gabriel | (Bible) the archangel who was the messenger of God |
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| Noah's flood, Noachian deluge, Noah and the Flood, the Flood | (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah |
| covenant | (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return |
| demythologize, demythologise | Remove the mythical element from (writings) |
| eisegesis | personal interpretation of a text (especially of the Bible) using your own ideas |
| exegesis | An explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible) |
| Instances | American Standard Version, American Revised Version | A revised version of the King James Version |
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| Authorized Version, King James Version, King James Bible | An English translation of the Bible published in 1611 |
| Douay Bible, Douay Version, Douay-Rheims Bible, Douay-Rheims Version, Rheims-Douay Bible, Rheims-Douay Version | An English translation of the Vulgate by Roman Catholic scholars |
| New English Bible | A modern English version / version of the Bible and Apocrypha |
| Revised Standard Version | A revision of the American Standard Version |
| Revised Version | A British revision of the Authorized Version |
| Vulgate | The Latin edition of the Bible translated from Hebrew and Greek mainly by St. Jerome at the end of the 4th century |
| Parts | New Testament | The collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation |
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| Old Testament | The collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people |
| Testament | Either of the two main parts of the Christian Bible |
| text | A passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon |
| Narrower | family Bible | A large Bible with pages to record marriages and births |
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| Broader | sacred text, sacred writing, religious writing, religious text | writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity |
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| Spanish | Biblia cristiana, biblia, Biblia, el buen libro, La Biblia, la palabra, las escrituras, las sagradas escrituras, Libro |
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| Catalan | biblia, Biblia, bíblia, Bíblia, La Bíblia |
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