word order

noun

1. the way in which words are arranged in sequence in a sentence or smaller construction:

   In Latin, word order is freer than in English.

word order

noun

1. the arrangement of words in a phrase, clause, or sentence. In many languages, including English, word order plays an important part in determining meanings expressed in other languages by inflections

Word History and Origins

Origin of word order¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

The system, it said, was “erroneously set to flag phrases without respect to word order.”

From MIT Technology Review

The updated phrase match will continue to respect word order when it’s important to the meaning, the announcement reads.

From Search Engine Land

Wherever possible, the Old English syntax has been preserved (see line 1242); the word-order of the original is retained.

From Project Gutenberg

Note the free word-order in Spanish which permits, as in this line, the subject to follow the verb, the object to precede.

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Bcquer, in his striving after complicated metrical arrangements, often inverts the word-order in his verse.

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This otherwise admirable sonnet is marred by the numerous inversions of the word-order.

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For this reason some sort of artificial diction is developed and some artificial word order devised.

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