word class

English

Etymology

From word +‎ class.

Noun

word class (plural word classes)

1. (linguistics) A linguistic form class whose members are words.

   Synonym: lexical category

   • 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes‎^[1], page 297:

     These lists differentiated terms according to word class (that is, a word with both a noun and adjective definition counted as two separate items in the list).

2. (linguistics) A linguistic form or structure class whose members are words.

   Synonym: part of speech

Further reading

• “word class”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• word class on Wikipedia.Wikipedia