Definition of word class in US English:
word class
nounˈwərd ˌklasˈwərd ˌklæs
A category of words of similar form or function; a part of speech.
Example sentencesExamples
- The word class of the repeated items was manipulated to include nouns, adjectives, and verbs - the last a class not used in the previous experiments.
- Conversion is the process that switches words into a different word class.
- Ultimately, however, a word class emerges as a function of its role within a constructional schema.
- The present study additionally demonstrates the importance of the first letter of a noun for identifying its word class at an early stage of sentence processing in German.
- On the lexical level, paradigmatic contrasts indicate which words are likely to belong to the same word class (part of speech): cat, dog, parrot in the diagram are all nouns, sat, slept, perched are all verbs.