multi-word

See also: multiword

English

Alternative forms

• multiword
• multiworded

Etymology

From multi- +‎ word.

Adjective

multi-word (not comparable)

1. Consisting of more than one word.
   • 2004, John A. Hawkins, Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars‎^[1]:

     The single-word/multi-word distinction involves what is most plausibly a difference in terminal elements among items of the same category type (e.g. adjective phrases).

   • 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes‎^[2], page 297:

     The verb categories included two-word multi-word verbs, though terms of more than two words were placed in the phrase category.

Usage notes

• The hyphenated form is much more common in the British corpus while the solid form in the American one.

Antonyms

• one-word
• single-word

Translations

consisting of more than one word

• Czech: víceslovný m
• Hungarian: többszavas
• Polish: wielowyrazowy
• Portuguese: multipalavra, multipalavras
• Russian: многосло́вный (ru) (mnogoslóvnyj), неодносло́вный (ru) (neodnoslóvnyj)
• Spanish: multipalabra

Further reading

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “multi-”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.