Part-of-speech Definition

parts-of-speech
noun
Any of the classes of words of a given language to which a word can be assigned: different kinds of grammar have different criteria for classifying words, as form, function or meaning, or combinations of these: in traditional English grammar, patterned after Latin grammar, the parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
Webster's New World
One of a group of theoretical classifications of words according to their syntactic, morphological, and semantic properties, such as the noun, determiner, verb, adjective, adverb, complementizer, preposition, and conjunction.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
form-classword classlexemegrammatical formfunction-word
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adjective
Attributive form of part of speech, noun.
Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Part-of-speech

Noun

Singular:
part-of-speech
Plural:
parts-of-speech

Part-of-speech Sentence Examples

  • The part of speech is in red, and the different senses of the word are in green.

  • You'll receive a definition of the word, what type of word it is (noun, verb, etc.) and a sentence using the word in that part of speech.

  • For example, dictionaries often give the part of speech of a word, as well as the gender of French nouns.

  • Each entry is completed with part of speech information and provides several lexical meanings for all polysemantic words.

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Words Starting With

PPAPAR

Words Ending With

HCHECH

Unscrambles

part-of-speech

Words Starting With P and Ending With H

Starts With P & Ends With HStarts With PA & Ends With HStarts With P & Ends With CH

Word Length

14 Letter Words14 Letter Words Starting With P14 Letter Words Ending With H