What does "lexical category" mean?

A linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question, such as nouns or verbs.

Lexical category

Q: What is a synonym for "lexical category"?

Common synonyms include: grammatical category, grammatical class, parts of speech, word class, word type.

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Noun

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A linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question, such as nouns or verbs.

Synonyms

All synonyms

grammatical category grammatical class parts of speech word class word type

Etymology

From lexical + category.

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