Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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compound word | Yes | No | No | No |
exocentric compound | Yes | No | No | No |
compound word (noun) | exocentric compound (noun) |
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a word (as anthropology, kilocycle, builder) consisting of any of various combinations of words, combining forms, or affixes. | a grammatical compound not having the same syntactic function in the sentence as any one of its immediate constituents. |