In linguistics a word is the smallest element that may be uttered in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content (with
The term word may refer to a spoken word or to a written word, or sometimes to the abstract concept behind either.
Then all was silent save the voice of the high priest, whose words grew louder and louder, [ …]
Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
“Ain’t! How often am I to tell you ain’t ain’t a word?”
In still another variation, the nonsense word is presented and the teacher asks, "What sound was in the beginning of the word?" "In the middle?" and so on. The child should always respond with the phoneme; he should not use letter labels.
For French today, we will learn the word douche - now, don't think too much!
She was at a loss for words when she saw the number of people who had come to grieve for her husband.
If you equip your search engine with a stop list containing a few common words such as "a", "the", and "and", you can decrease the full-text index size by about 20%.
Used in the Beginning of Sentence
Words have a longer life than deeds. — Pindar (translated)
Words indenizened, and commonly used as English. — Ben Jonson.
Used in the Ending of Sentence
A proofreader that does not know foreign languages is likely to miscorrect Latin words.
He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.
Letters of the alphabet are the figurae that comprise a written word.
Meaning of word for the defined word.
Grammatically, this word "word" is an interjection. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.