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noun Grammar.
any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
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Origin of part of speech
First recorded in 1500–10
Words nearby part of speech
partners' desk, partnership, partnerships for peace, part-off, Part of Fortune, part of speech, parton, partook, partridge, partridgeberry, partridge pea
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part of speech
noun
a class of words sharing important syntactic or semantic features; a group of words in a language that may occur in similar positions or fulfil similar functions in a sentence. The chief parts of speech in English are noun, pronoun, adjective, determiner, adverb, verb, preposition, conjunction, and interjectionAbbreviation: POS
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