| Part of Speech |
Description |
| abbreviation: |
A word or phrase that is shorten to conveniently represent the the longer, complete form. |
| acronym: |
An abbreviation of several words in such a manner that the abbreviation itself forms an apparent word. |
| adjective: |
A word that modifies or describes the features of a noun. |
| adverb: |
A word that modify an adjective, a verb, or another adverb. |
| classifier: |
A morpheme or word placed before a noun or numeral designating measurable or counting object. For example, a 'school' of fish or a 'dozen' eggs. |
| conjunction: |
A word or pharse that connects two parts of a sentence. |
| definite article: |
A word that belongs to a class of determiners that particularizes or restricts a noun. The English word 'the' is a definte article. |
| determiner: |
A word that belongs to a group of noun modifiers, including definite articles, demonstratives, and possesive adjectives. |
| exclamation: |
A forceful utterance or involuntary expression of pain, fear, or excitement. |
| form of address: |
A word that you use to politely refer to a person when talking to or about them, like sir, miss, or madam. |
| idiom: |
A word or phrase or expression unique to a given language. |
| imperative: |
A word that relates to or constitutes the mood that expresses a command or request. |
| interjection: |
A standalone word that expresses the immediate emotion or feeling of the speaker. |
| interrogative: |
A word or form used to ask a question, like who, what, when, where, why, and how. |
| intransitive verb: |
A verb that does not require an object. |
| modal: |
A verb that is characteristically used with one or more other verbs to express tense or mood. Another term for modal is an auxiliary verb. |
| name: |
A word that is used to uniquely identify a person, place, or thing. |
| no translation (n/a): |
This word does not have a direct translation between languages. |
| noun: |
A word that is a person, place, thing, or notion. |
| number: |
A word that represents a number, like one, two, three, four, and five. |
| onomatopoeia: |
A word that imitates the actual sound to which it refers. |
| particle: |
A word that has a grammatical function, but does not distinctly belong to one of the other major categories of speech. Many particles are unique to a specific language and cannot be directly translated to another language. |
| phatic: |
A word or phrased used to share emotions or establish a social mood rather than communication information. |
| phrasal verb: |
A verb formed from two or more parts, usually with another verb, adverb, or preposition. |
| phrase: |
A sequence of words intended to have meaning. |
| prefix: |
An affix attached to the front of a word to produce an inflected form or derivation. |
| preposition: |
A word that shows a relationship between its object and some other word in a sentence. |
| pronoun: |
A word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase, like he or she. |
| qualifier: |
A content word that qualifies or modifies the meaning of a verb or noun. |
| quantifier: |
A word that expresses a quantity. |
| slang: |
A kind of word that can be construed as playful or casual or even rude and is peculiar to a specific language. |
| title: |
A word that precedes a person's name and describes that person's position or status or relationship with you and/or other people, like Mr. or Mrs. |
| transitive verb: |
A verb that requires an object. |
| unknown: |
An entry in the dictionary that has not been categorized yet. |
| verb: |
A word that describes an action, existence, or occurrance in a sentence. In this case, the word can be either transitive or intransitive. |
| vulgar: |
A word that is offensive, lewd, or profane in speech. |