SEND WORD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does send word mean? 

• SEND WORD (verb)
  The verb SEND WORD has 1 sense:

1. inform (somebody) of something

  Familiarity information: SEND WORD used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEND WORD (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inform (somebody) of something

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

advise; apprise; apprize; give notice; notify; send word

Context example:

I advised him that the rent was due

Hypernyms (to "send word" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody of something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

 Context examples 

You had better send word, sir, that you will be there in the morning.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I didn't know it this morning, and there was no time to send word, for I met him on the way out.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There is a chance of escape, or at any rate of being able to send word home.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)