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function word
noun
- a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed ( content word ).
function word
noun
- grammar a word, such as the , with a particular grammatical role but little identifiable meaning Compare content word grammatical meaning
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Word History and Origins
Origin of function word1
First recorded in 1935–40
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