English noun: word |
1. | word (communication) a unit of language that native speakers can identify |
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| Samples | Words are the blocks from which sentences are made. He hardly said ten words all morning.
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| Broader (hypernym) | language unit, linguistic unit |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | anagram, anaphor, antonym, back-formation, catchword, charade, classifier, closed-class word, cognate, cognate word, coinage, content word, contraction, deictic, deictic word, derivative, descriptor, diminutive, dirty word, dissyllable, disyllable, equivalent word, form, four-letter Anglo-Saxon word, four-letter word, function word, guide word, guideword, hapax legomenon, head, head word, headword, heteronym, holonym, homonym, hybrid, hypernym, hyponym, key word, language, loan, loan-blend, loanblend, loanword, logical quantifier, manner name, meronym, metonym, monosyllabic word, monosyllable, neologism, neology, nomenclature, nonce word, open-class word, opposite, opposite word, oxytone, palindrome, paroxytone, part name, partitive, polysemant, polysemantic word, polysemous word, polysyllabic word, polysyllable, primitive, proparoxytone, quantifier, quantifier, reduplication, retronym, signifier, spoken word, subordinate, subordinate word, substantive, superordinate, superordinate word, syncategorem, syncategoreme, synonym, term, terminology, trisyllable, troponym, vocable, whole name, word form, written word |
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| Part holonym | affix, syllable |
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2. | word (communication) a brief statement |
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| Samples | He didn't say a word about it.
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| Broader (hypernym) | statement |
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3. | word (communication) information about recent and important events |
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| Samples | They awaited news of the outcome.
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| Synonyms | intelligence, news, tidings |
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| Broader (hypernym) | info, information |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | good word, latest, update |
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4. | word (communication) a verbal command for action |
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| Samples | When I give the word, charge!.
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| Broader (hypernym) | order |
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5. | word (communication) an exchange of views on some topic |
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| Samples | We had a good discussion. We had a word or two about it.
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| Synonyms | discussion, give-and-take |
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| Broader (hypernym) | language, oral communication, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | argument, argumentation, conference, debate, deliberation, dialogue, group discussion, negotiation, panel discussion, post-mortem, postmortem, public discussion, talks, ventilation |
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6. | word (communication) a promise |
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| Samples | He gave his word.
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| Synonyms | parole, word of honor |
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| Broader (hypernym) | promise |
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7. | word (quantity) a word is a string of bits stored in computer memory |
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| Samples | Large computers use words up to 64 bits long.
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| Broader (hypernym) | computer memory unit |
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| Part holonym | byte |
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| Part meronym | K, kB, KiB, kibibyte, kilobyte |
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8. | Word (person) the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus) |
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| Synonyms | Logos, Son |
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| Instance hypernym | hypostasis, hypostasis of Christ |
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| Instance hyponym | Christ, Deliverer, Good Shepherd, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, Messiah, Redeemer, Savior, Saviour, the Nazarene |
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9. | word (communication) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group |
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| Samples | He forgot the password.
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| Synonyms | countersign, parole, password, watchword |
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| Broader (hypernym) | arcanum, positive identification, secret |
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10. | Word (communication) the sacred writings of the Christian religions |
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| Samples | He went to carry the Word to the heathen.
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| Synonyms | Bible, Book, Christian Bible, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word of God |
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| Broader (hypernym) | religious text, religious writing, sacred text, sacred writing |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | family Bible |
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| Instance hyponym | American Revised Version, American Standard Version, Authorized Version, Douay Bible, Douay Version, Douay-Rheims Bible, Douay-Rheims Version, King James Bible, King James Version, New English Bible, Revised Standard Version, Revised Version, Rheims-Douay Bible, Rheims-Douay Version, Vulgate |
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| Part holonym | New Testament, Old Testament, Testament, text |
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| Domain category members | covenant, demythologise, demythologize, eisegesis, exegesis, Gabriel, Noachian deluge, Noah and the Flood, Noah's flood, the Flood |
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