grammatical meaning


noun
  1. the meaning of an inflectional morpheme or of some other syntactic device, as word order.

Origin of grammatical meaning

1
First recorded in 1760–70

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How to use grammatical meaning in a sentence

  • But this is not all; when I had examined this passage attentively, I found it also to be lacking in grammatical meaning.

    My Religion | Leo Tolstoy
  • Towards that end, discrimination of the usual or grammatical meaning of words was indispensable.

  • The mere grammatical meaning of the word 'martyr' breaks into pieces at a blow the whole notion of the privacy of goodness.

    The Defendant | G.K. Chesterton
  • The barbarous Latin of the Vita is so uncouth and unformed as to convey no certain grammatical meaning.

British Dictionary definitions for grammatical meaning

grammatical meaning

noun
  1. the meaning of a word by reference to its function within a sentence rather than to a world outside the sentence: Compare lexical meaning, function word

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