Word of the Day:
lexical
What It Means
Concerning the vocabulary, words, sentences or morphemes of a language.
Concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary.
Denoting a content word as opposed to a function word.
a lexical verb
Did You Know?
From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -al.
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