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word classes

word classes is the plural of word class.

Meaning of word class

Noun

word class (plural word classes)

  1. A linguistic form class whose members are words.
    • These lists differentiated terms according to word class (that is, a word with both a noun and adjective definition counted as two separate items in the list).2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 297
  2. A linguistic form or structure class whose members are words.
    Synonyms:
    part of speech

Questions about word classes

What is word classes the plural of?
Word classes is the plural of word class.

Words near word classes in the dictionary

  1. word bubble
  2. word bubbles
  3. word chain
  4. word chains
  5. word class
  6. word classes
  7. word clock
  8. word cloud
  9. word clouds
  10. word count
  11. word counts

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