Wordbuilding

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The construction of words from simpler units. uncountable

    "We gave the children a wordbuilding exercise."

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word formationword formation

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"We gave the children a wordbuilding exercise."

Etymology

From word + building. Compare German Wortbildung (“word formation, morphology”).

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