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part of speech

 
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–noun Grammar.
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.
Origin:
1500–10
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part of speech  
n.   pl. parts of speech

  1. One of a group of traditional classifications of words according to their functions in context, including the noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection, and sometimes the article.

  2. A word considered as a part of speech.

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