Thesaurus:word

Thesaurus

word

English

Noun

Sense: distinct unit of language

Synonyms

• word
• lexeme

Hypernyms

• linguistic unit    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• SAT word (figurative)
• swear word    [⇒ thesaurus]
• buzzword

By part of speech or grammatical function

• noun    [⇒ thesaurus]
• adjective    [⇒ thesaurus]
• pronoun    [⇒ thesaurus]
• numeral
• verb    [⇒ thesaurus]
• adverb
• preposition
• conjunction
• interjection
• article
• particle    [⇒ thesaurus]
• demonstrative
• determiner
• clitic
• classifier
• quantifier    [⇒ thesaurus]

Function word and content word

• function word
• content word

By number of syllables

• monosyllable
• disyllable
• trisyllable
• tetrasyllable
• polysyllable
• multisyllable

By etymology

• loanword
• borrowing
• calque
• loan translation
• blend
• frankenword
• portmanteau

By morphology

• compound
• neo-classical compound

Hypernyms

• term    [⇒ thesaurus]
• sign
• symbol
• lexical item
• lexical unit

Meronyms

• syllable
• character
• letter
• morpheme    [⇒ thesaurus]
• affix
• prefix
• suffix
• combining form    [⇒ thesaurus]

Holonyms

• sentence
• phrase    [⇒ thesaurus]
• clause
• statement    [⇒ thesaurus]
• vocabulary
• lexical item

Various

Word properties

• animacy
• aspect
• clusivity
• comparison
• definiteness
• evidentiality
• focus
• grammatical case    [⇒ thesaurus]
• grammatical gender    [⇒ thesaurus]
• grammatical number    [⇒ thesaurus]
• grammatical person    [⇒ thesaurus]
• lemma
• mirativity
• modality
• mood
• polarity
• tense
• topic
• transitivity
• voice

Further reading

• “562. word” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “word” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.