lexical category

English

Etymology

From lexical +‎ category.

Noun

lexical category (plural lexical categories)

  1. (linguistics) A linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question, such as nouns or verbs.
    Synonyms: word class, lexical class, part of speech
    Hyponym: lexical item

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