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COMPOUND SENTENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does compound sentence mean?
• COMPOUND SENTENCE (noun)
The noun COMPOUND SENTENCE has 1 sense:
1. a sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
Familiarity information: COMPOUND SENTENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("compound sentence" is a kind of...):
sentence (a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language)
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