grammatical meaning

American  

noun

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

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grammatical meaning British  

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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Etymology

Origin of grammatical meaning

First recorded in 1760–70

Example Sentences

You must remember that these articles are not to be subjected to your own sense or comment, but must be taken in the literal and grammatical meaning.

From Where the Blue Begins by Morley, Christopher

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

From The Defendant by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

"This is neither the obvious nor grammatical meaning of his words."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold