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grammatical meaning

noun

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

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Nearby words

  1. grammar school,
  2. grammar-translation method,
  3. grammarian,
  4. grammatical,
  5. grammatical gender,
  6. grammaticality,
  7. grammaticalize,
  8. grammaticism,
  9. grammatist,
  10. grammatology
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Origin of grammatical meaning

First recorded in 1760–70
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British Dictionary definitions for grammatical meaning

grammatical meaning

noun

the meaning of a word by reference to its function within a sentence rather than to a world outside the sentenceCompare lexical meaning, function word
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