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grammatical meaning vs significance

significance vs grammatical meaning

grammatical meaning and significance both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
grammatical meaning Yes No No No
significance Yes No No No
As nouns, significance is a hypernym of grammatical meaning; that is, significance is a word with a broader meaning than grammatical meaning:
  • grammatical meaning: the meaning of a word that depends on its role in a sentence; varies with inflectional form
  • significance: the message that is intended or expressed or signified
Other hypernyms of grammatical meaning include import, meaning, signification.
grammatical meaning (noun) significance (noun)
the meaning of a word that depends on its role in a sentence; varies with inflectional form the quality of being significant
a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred
the message that is intended or expressed or signified
Difference between grammatical meaning and significance

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