Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit;
- Example: "I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner"[syn: construction, grammatical construction, expression]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
grammatical construction
n 1: a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and
are considered as a single unit; "I concluded from his
awkward constructions that he was a foreigner" [syn:
construction, grammatical construction, expression]
[ant: misconstruction]