English noun: grammatical construction | |||
| 1. | grammatical construction (communication) a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | ||
| Samples | I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner. | ||
| Synonyms | construction, expression | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | constituent, grammatical constituent | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | adjunct, clause, complement, involution, phrase, predicator | ||
| Antonyms | misconstruction | ||