grammatical meaning
noun
the meaning of an inflectional morpheme or of some other syntactic device, as word order.
Nearby words
grammar school, grammar-translation method, grammarian, grammatical, grammatical gender, grammatical meaning, grammaticality, grammaticalize, grammaticism, grammatology, gramme
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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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