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semiwords

semiwords is the plural of semiword.

Meaning of semiword

Noun

semiword (plural semiwords)

  1. The initial or final constituent of compounds that cannot occur outside the domain of compounds, i.e., they are not freely combinable with words or phrases into syntactic constituents, but can undergo coordination reduction in both directions.

Questions about semiwords

What is semiwords the plural of?
Semiwords is the plural of semiword.

Words near semiwords in the dictionary

  1. semiwidth
  2. semiwild
  3. semiwildcat
  4. semiwoody
  5. semiword
  6. semiwords
  7. semiworks
  8. semiyear
  9. semiyearly
  10. semiyears
  11. semizygous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: semiwords (page history and authors); semiword (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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