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LINGUISTIC RELATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does linguistic relation mean?
• LINGUISTIC RELATION (noun)
The noun LINGUISTIC RELATION has 1 sense:
1. a relation between linguistic forms or constituents
Familiarity information: LINGUISTIC RELATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A relation between linguistic forms or constituents
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("linguistic relation" is a kind of...):
relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "linguistic relation"):
grammatical relation (a linguistic relation established by grammar)
semantic relation (a relation between meanings)
homonymy (the relation between two words that are spelled the same way but differ in meaning or the relation between two words that are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning)
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