part of speech
part of speech noun: a linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb.
Noun
part of speech (plural parts of speech)
- A linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb.
- PARTS OF SPEECH. There are ten parts of speech, viz. Article, Substantive or Noun, Adjective, Numeral, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction, and Interjection.1828, Charles Follen, A Practical Grammar of the German Language, Boston, page 9
- 322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.1844, E. A. Andrews, First Lessions in Latin; or Introduction to Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Grammar, 6th edition, Boston, page 91
- Synonyms:
- lexical category, lexical class, syntactic category, word class
part of speech meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
part of speech in Hindi
- linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties
- शब्द भेद śabd bhed
part of speech in Tamil
- linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties
- சொல் col
part of speech in Urdu
- linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties
- جُزِ کَلام juz-i kalām, کَلِمَہ kalima, کَلْمَہ kalma
part of speech in Bengali
- linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties
- পদ pod
More languagesFewer languages
- part of speech in Telugu
- భాషాభాగము bhāṣābhāgamu
- part of speech in Tagalog
- bahagi ng pananalita, bahagi ng pangungusap
- part of speech in Arabic
- جُزْء كَلَام juzʔ kalām, قَسْم كَلَام qasm kalām
- part of speech in Malay
- golongan kata
- part of speech in Indonesian
- kelas kata
- part of speech in Thai
- วจีวิภาค wá-jii-wí-pâak, ชนิดของคำ chá-nít-kɔ̌ɔng-kam
- part of speech in Vietnamese
- từ loại
- part of speech in Myanmar
- ဝါစင်္ဂ wacangga.
Synonyms of part of speech
- lexical category
- lexical class
- syntactic category
- word class
Forms of part of speech
| plural | parts of speech |
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Origin of part of speech
From Middle English parte of spech, a calque of Latin pars ōrātiōnis.
Questions about part of speech
- What does part of speech mean?
- Part of speech means a linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb.
- What is part of speech in Hindi?
- Part of speech in Hindi is शब्द भेद (śabd bhed). See Part of speech meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is part of speech?
- Part of speech is a noun.
- What is the plural of part of speech?
- The plural of part of speech is parts of speech.
Words near part of speech in the dictionary
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