part of speech
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.
Nearby words
part and parcel, part company, part exchange, part music, part of fortune, part of speech, part song, part time, part way, part with, part work
Origin of part of speech
First recorded in 1500–10
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British Dictionary definitions for part of speech
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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