English noun: syntactic category | |||
1. | syntactic category (communication) (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties | ||
Synonyms | grammatical category | ||
Broader (hypernym) | category, class, family | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | case, form class, gender, grammatical case, grammatical gender, number, part of speech, participant role, person, semantic role, tense, word class | ||
Domain category | grammar | ||