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word class vs grammatical category

grammatical category vs word class

word class and grammatical category both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
word class Yes No No No
grammatical category Yes No No No
As nouns, grammatical category is a hypernym of word class; that is, grammatical category is a word with a broader meaning than word class:
  • word class: one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context
  • grammatical category: (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Other hypernyms of word class include syntactic category.
word class (noun) grammatical category (noun)
one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Difference between word class and grammatical category

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