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CONTENT WORD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does content word mean? 

CONTENT WORD (noun)
  The noun CONTENT WORD has 1 sense:

1. a word to which an independent meaning can be assignedplay

  Familiarity information: CONTENT WORD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CONTENT WORD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A word to which an independent meaning can be assigned

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

content word; open-class word

Hypernyms ("content word" is a kind of...):

word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)

Meronyms (parts of "content word"):

lexical meaning (the meaning of a content word that depends on the nonlinguistic concepts it is used to express)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "content word"):

head word; headword (a content word that can be qualified by a modifier)

noun (a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action)

verb (a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence)

modifier; qualifier (a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb)


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