word
- noun
- /wɜrd/
- The teacher asked us to find a word that describes our feelings.
- word meaning
- vocabulary words
- spelling words
In other words, booze is the British word then.
- In other words, booze is the British word then.
- So let's do the Dutch word for bone, bolt.
- So, you know, the words just like merge.
- Does Donald Trump know what the word surprise means?
- I like the way words make me feel.
- It's a lot more like a word than ZQNX.
- All right, Danny, your first word is lasagna.
- And it's it's there in the word for revenge as well.
Examples
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I will write one word in this book each day.
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I like the way words make me feel.
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Does Donald Trump know what the word surprise means?
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This one has the word fancy on it.
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But he doesn't believe a word I say.
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I gave you my word, Curley.
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It's a word in an African dialect meaning "thief."
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Then summarize what they have said in their own words, including their worries and fears.
Academic text (2015) -
With Martin Luther's famous and exemplary words: "Here I stand, I can do no other."
Academic text (2017) -
I will write one word in this book each day.
Antonyms
Idioms
To think carefully about what you have done and decide to act differently
Compounds
- Formal
Sacred writings and teachings believed to come from God that give guidance for living
- Specialized
A program on a computer for writing, editing and printing text documents
- Literature
Words or phrases that avoid saying something clearly and often make people believe something untrue
A word made from two words that often has a new meaning, like toothpaste or watchdog
- Informal
A polite way to mention the word love when someone feels awkward saying it
- Specialized
A word from a small fixed set that helps show grammar, like in or and
- Specialized
A word that shows person, place and time compared to the speaker or listener
- Offensive
A short rude English word of four letters that insults someone
- Specialized
A word that enters a language because of a mistake, like a misprint, and has no real use
- Specialized
A word at the top of a dictionary page showing the first or last entry on that page
- Specialized
A general word that includes more specific words like bird for sparrow
- Slur
A rude word used to insult people with an intellectual disability, replaced by the letter R
- Specialized
A word that names a more specific kind than a general word, like 'poodle' for 'dog'
How Large
Surface Forms
Etymology
Word comes from an old Germanic root that meant a 'thing said', and you can still see the same idea in German Wort. So a word is literally a single 'thing said', which is why it names one piece of speech or writing.