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grammary

grammary is the alternative spelling of grammar.

grammary is the alternative form of gramarye.

Meaning of grammar

Noun

grammar (countable and uncountable, plural grammars)

  1. A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
    1. (uncountable) The study of such a system.
  2. (uncountable) Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.
  3. (countable) A book describing the grammar (noun sense 1 or noun sense 2) of a language.
  4. (countable) A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
    • Because real lexicons are big and complex, from a software engineering perspective it is best to write simple grammars that have a simple, well-defined way, of pulling out the information they need from vast lexicons. That is, grammars should be thought of as separate entities which can access the...2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §8.2
  5. (countable) A formal system defining a formal language.

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Meaning of gramarye

Noun

gramarye (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Grammar; learning.
    • […] I dearly love to climb / Time's ladder, and identify / Myself with worthies long gone by – / And Lucerne seems (at least to me) / Fit circle for such gramarye; […]1835 April, “Tour of Oliver Yorke’s Rhyming Cousin”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XI, number LXIV, London: James Fraser, 215 Regent Street, →OCLC, page 405
  2. (archaic) Mystical learning; the occult, magic, sorcery.
    • My mother was a weſterne woman / And learned in gramaryè, / And when I learned at the ſchole, / Something ſhee taught itt me.1765, Thomas Percy, compiler, “King Estmere”, in Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: […], volume I, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, book I, page 64, lines 143–146

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Origin of grammary

From Middle English gramery, grammarye.

Questions about grammary

What is grammary the alternative spelling of?
Grammary is the alternative spelling of grammar.

Words near grammary in the dictionary

  1. grammarlessness
  2. grammarlike
  3. grammarnazi
  4. grammarnazis
  5. grammars
  6. grammary
  7. grammas
  8. grammata
  9. grammates
  10. grammatic
  11. grammatical

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