part of speech

noun

one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context (Freq. 1)

• Syn: ↑form class, ↑word class

• Hypernyms: ↑grammatical category, ↑syntactic category

• Hyponyms: ↑major form class

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Etymology: translation of Late Latin pars orationis, translation of Greek meros logou

1. : a traditional class of words distinguished according to the kind of idea denoted and the function performed in a sentence : major form class — compare adjective, adverb, conjunction, interjection, noun, preposition, pronoun, verb

2. : a word belonging to a particular part of speech

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Gram.

any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.

[1500-10]

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part of speech

One of the various classes of words

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Main Entry: ↑part

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part of speech UK US noun [countable] [singular part of speech plural ˌparts of ˈspeech] linguistics

one of the main grammatical groups that a particular word belongs to according to the way it is used in a sentence, for example noun, verb, adjective, or adverb

Thesaurus: types of word_hyponym

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part of speech,

any one of the classes into which words are divided according to their use or function in sentences. The traditional parts of speech are the noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.

Usage parts of speech. One of the fundamental facts of English grammar is that a word may function as more than one part of speech: In “Iron rusts if left in the rain,” rust is a verb; in “Remove the rust with a wire brush,” rust is a noun; in “She wore a rust dress and brown shoes,” rust is an adjective. This shows that the part of speech to which a word belongs cannot be definitely decided by looking at the word by itself; we need to know how it is used.

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n. a category to which a word is assigned in accordance with its syntactic functions. In English the main parts of speech are noun, pronoun, adjective, determiner, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection

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noun, pl parts of speech [count]

: a class of words (such as adjectives, adverbs, nouns, verbs, etc.) that are identified according to the kinds of ideas they express and the way they work in a sentence

What part of speech is the word “lovely?”

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ˌpart of ˈspeech [part of speech parts of speech] noun (grammar)

one of the classes into which words are divided according to their grammar, such as noun, verb, adjective, etc.

Syn: ↑word class