pro-form

pro-form
/proh"fawrm'/, n. Gram.
a word used to replace or substitute for a word, phrase, or clause belonging to a given grammatical class, as a pronoun used to replace a noun or noun phrase, there used to replace an adverb or adverbial phrase of place, as in I parked the car near the entrance and left it there, or so used to substitute for a clause, as in Have they come? I think so.
[1960-65]

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pro-form UK US noun [countable] [singular pro-form plural pro-forms] linguistics
a word, usually a pronoun, that is used in place of another word to avoid repeating it
Thesaurus: types of wordhyponym

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['prōˌfôrm]
n. Linguistics a word or lexical unit that is dependent for its meaning on reference to some other part of the context or sentence in which it occurs, for example, a pronoun replacing a noun or noun phrase, or a verb replacing a clause, such as do in she likes chocolate and so do I

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ˈpro-form 7 [pro-form] noun (grammar)
a word that depends on another part of the sentence or text for its meaning, for example ‘her’ in ‘I like Ruth but I don't love her.’

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pro-form
see pro-1 4 b.

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