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Part of speech

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Noun
  1. 1
    A linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb.

    "PARTS OF SPEECH. There are ten parts of speech, viz. Article, Substantive or Noun, Adjective, Numeral, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction, and Interjection."

  2. 2
    one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English parte of spech, a calque of Latin pars ōrātiōnis.

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