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lexical categories

lexical categories is the plural of lexical category.

Meaning of lexical category

Noun

lexical category (plural lexical categories)

  1. A linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question, such as nouns or verbs.
    Synonyms:
    word class, lexical class, part of speech

Questions about lexical categories

What is lexical categories the plural of?
Lexical categories is the plural of lexical category.

Words near lexical categories in the dictionary

  1. lexical analyzers
  2. lexical aspect
  3. lexical aspects
  4. lexical bundle
  5. lexical bundles
  6. lexical categories
  7. lexical category
  8. lexical choice
  9. lexical correspondence
  10. lexical correspondences
  11. lexical definition

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