form class

American  

noun

Grammar.

1. a class of words or forms in a given language that have one or more grammatical features in common, as, in Latin, all masculine nouns in the nominative singular, all masculine singular nouns, all masculine nouns, or all nouns.

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form class British  

noun

1. another term for part of speech

2. a group of words distinguished by common inflections, such as the weak verbs of English

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Etymology

Origin of form class

First recorded in 1920–25