part of speech
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)
- one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical contextSynonyms: form classword classType of grammatical category, syntactic categoryKinds major form class
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Part of speech
Grammar, a sort or class of words of a particular character; thus, the noun is a part of speech denoting the name of a thing; the verb is a part of speech which asserts something of the subject of a sentence.
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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54