| has gloss | (noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"
word form, descriptor, signifier, form |
| lexicalization | eng: descriptor |
| lexicalization | eng: form |
| lexicalization | eng: signifier |
| lexicalization | eng: word form |
| subclass of | (noun) a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"
word |
| has subclass | (noun) the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
plural form, plural |
| has subclass | (noun) the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton
singular form, singular |
| has subclass | (noun) a word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an error
ghost word |
| has subclass | (noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
theme, root word, base, root, stem, radical |
| has subclass | (noun) a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
root, etymon |
| has subclass | (noun) the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary
main entry word, entry word, citation form |
| has subclass | (noun) a shortened form of a word or phrase
abbreviation |
| has subclass | (noun) a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name
acronym |
| has subclass | e/Automorphic form |
| has subclass | e/Avatar |
| has subclass | c/Adoption forms and related practices |
| has subclass | c/Bilinear forms |
| has subclass | c/Chinese poetry forms |
| has subclass | c/Fiction forms |
| has subclass | c/Fictional hybrid life forms |
| has subclass | c/Forms of English |
| has subclass | c/Forms of Parvati |
| has subclass | c/Forms of animal shelter |
| has subclass | c/Forms of golf |
| has subclass | c/Forms of tennis |
| has subclass | c/Matrix normal forms |
| has subclass | c/Musical forms |
| has subclass | c/Narrative forms |
| has subclass | c/Normal forms (logic) |
| has subclass | c/United States government forms |
| has subclass | e/Differential form |
| has subclass | e/Forms of cricket |
| has subclass | e/Haikai |
| has subclass | e/Modular form |
| has subclass | e/Quadratic form |