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A sound or a combination of sounds, or its representation in writing or printing, that symbolizes and communicates a meaning and may consist of a single morpheme or of a combination of morphemes.
Something said; an utterance, remark, or comment: May I say a word about that?
Computer Science. A set of bits constituting the smallest unit of addressable memory.
words Discourse or talk; speech: Actions speak louder than words.
words Music. The text of a vocal composition; lyrics.
An assurance or promise; sworn intention: She has kept her word.
1. A command or direction; an order: gave the word to retreat.
2. A verbal signal; a password or watchword.
1. News: Any word on your promotion? See synonyms at news.
2. Rumor: Word has it they're divorcing.
words Hostile or angry remarks made back and forth.
Used euphemistically in combination with the initial letter of a term that is considered offensive or taboo or that one does not want to utter: "Although economists here will not call it a recession yet, the dreaded 'R' word is beginning to pop up in the media" (Francine S. Kiefer).
Word
1. See Logos (sense 2).
2. The Scriptures; the Bible.

tr.v., word·ed, word·ing, words.
To express in words: worded the petition carefully.

interj.
Slang. Used to express approval or an affirmative response to something. Sometimes used with up.

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at a word

In immediate response.

good word

A favorable comment: She put in a good word for me.
Favorable news.

have no words for

To be unable to describe or talk about.

in a word

In short; in summary: In a word, the situation is serious.

in so many words

In precisely those words; exactly: hinted at impending indictments but did not say it in so many words.
Speaking candidly and straightforwardly: In so many words, the weather has been beastly.

of few words

Not conversational or loquacious; laconic: a person of few words.

of (one's) word

Displaying personal dependability: a woman of her word.

take at (one's) word

To be convinced of another's sincerity and act in accord with his or her statement: We took them at their word that the job would be done on time.

upon my word

Indeed; really.

[Middle English, from Old English.]

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A sound or combination of sounds that symbolizes and communicates a meaning: expression, locution, term. See words.
Something said: saying, statement, utterance. See words.
Something communicated, as information: communication, message. See words.
A declaration that one will or will not do a certain thing: assurance, covenant, engagement, guarantee, guaranty, pledge, plight², promise, solemn word, vow, warrant, word of honor. See obligation.
An authoritative indication to be obeyed: behest, bidding, charge, command, commandment, dictate, direction, directive, injunction, instruction (often used in plural), mandate, order. See over/under, words.
New information, especially about recent events and happenings: advice (often used in plural), intelligence, news, tiding (often used in plural). Informal scoop. See knowledge/ignorance, words.
Idle, often sensational and groundless talk about others: gossip, gossipry, hearsay, report, rumor, talebearing, tattle, tittle-tattle. Slang scuttlebutt. See words.
A discussion, often heated, in which a difference of opinion is expressed. altercation, argument, bicker, clash, contention, controversy, debate, difficulty, disagreement, dispute, fight, polemic, quarrel, run-in, spat, squabble, tiff, wrangle. Informal hassle, rhubarb, tangle. See conflict/cooperation.

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Antonyms: silence

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Antonyms: breach, break

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IN BRIEF: A letter or group of letters that means something.

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A word is the smallest free form (an item that may be uttered in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content) in a language, in contrast to a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of meaning. A word may consist of only one morpheme (e.g. wolf), but a single morpheme may not be able to exist as a free form (e.g. the English plural morpheme -s).

Typically, a word will consist of a root or stem, and zero or more affixes. Words can be combined to create other units of language, such as phrases, clauses, and/or sentences. A word consisting of two or more stems joined together form a compound. A word combined with an already existing word or part of a word form a portmanteau.

Word may refer to a spoken word or a written word, or sometimes, the abstract concept behind either. Spoken words are made up of phonemes, and written words of graphemes.

Contents

1 Definitions
2 Morphology
3 Philosophy
4 Classes
5 See also
6 Footnotes
7 References
8 External links

Definitions

Further information: Lexeme and Lemma (linguistics)

Depending upon language in question, it can be either easy or difficult to identify or decipher a word. Dictionaries take upon themselves the task of categorizing a language's lexicon (i.e., its vocabulary) into lemmas. These can be taken as an indication of what constitutes a "word" in the opinion of the writers.

Semantic definition

Leonard Bloomfield introduced the concept of "Minimal Free Forms" in 1926. Words are thought of as the smallest meaningful unit of speech that can stand by themselves.^[1] This correlates phonemes (units of sound) to lexemes (units of meaning). However, some written words are not minimal free forms, as they make no sense by themselves (for example, the and of).^[2]

Features

In the Minimalist school of theoretical syntax, words (also called lexical items in the literature) are construed as "bundles" of linguistic features that are united into a structure with form and meaning.^[3] For example, the word "bears" has semantic features (it denotes real-world objects, bears), category features (it is a noun), number features (it is plural and must agree with verbs, pronouns, and demonstratives in its domain), phonological features (it is pronounced a certain way), etc.

Word boundaries

The task of defining what constitutes a "word" involves determining where one word ends and another word begins—in other words, identifying word boundaries. There are several ways to determine where the word boundaries of spoken language should be placed:

Potential pause: A speaker is told to repeat a given sentence slowly, allowing for pauses. The speaker will tend to insert pauses at the word boundaries. However, this method is not foolproof: the speaker could easily break up polysyllabic words.
Indivisibility: A speaker is told to say a sentence out loud, and then is told to say the sentence again with extra words added to it. Thus, I have lived in this village for ten years might become My family and I have lived in this little village for about ten or so years. These extra words will tend to be added in the word boundaries of the original sentence. However, some languages have infixes, which are put inside a word. Similarly, some have separable affixes; in the German sentence "Ich komme gut zu Hause an," the verb ankommen is separated.
Phonetic boundaries: Some languages have particular rules of pronunciation that make it easy to spot where a word boundary should be. For example, in a language that regularly stresses the last syllable of a word, a word boundary is likely to fall after each stressed syllable. Another example can be seen in a language that has vowel harmony (like Turkish):^[4] the vowels within a given word share the same quality, so a word boundary is likely to occur whenever the vowel quality changes. Nevertheless, not all languages have such convenient phonetic rules, and even those that do present the occasional exceptions.

In practice, linguists apply a mixture of all these methods to determine the word boundaries of any given sentence. Even with the careful application of these methods, the exact definition of a word is often still very elusive.

Orthographic boundaries: See below.

Orthography

In languages with a literary tradition, there is interrelation between orthography and the question of what is considered a single word. Word separators (typically spaces) are common in modern orthography of languages using alphabetic scripts, but these are (excepting isolated precedents) a modern development (see also history of writing).

In English orthography, words may contain spaces if they are compounds or proper nouns such as ice cream or air raid shelter.

Vietnamese orthography, although using the Latin alphabet, delimits monosyllabic morphemes, not words. East Asian orthography (languages using CJK characters) also tend to delimit syllables rather than full words. Conversely, synthetic languages often combine many lexical morphemes into single words, making it difficult to boil them down to the traditional sense of words found more easily in analytic languages; this is especially difficult for polysynthetic languages, such as Inuktitut and Ubykh, where entire sentences may consist of a single word.

Morphology

Main article: Morphology (linguistics)

Further information: Inflection

In synthetic languages, a single word stem (for example, love) may have a number of different forms (for example, loves, loving, and loved). However, these are not usually considered to be different words, but different forms of the same word. In these languages, words may be considered to be constructed from a number of morphemes. In Indo-European languages in particular, the morphemes distinguished are

the root
optional suffixes
a desinence.

Thus, the Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dhom would be analyzed as consisting of

*wr̥-, the zero grade of the root *wer-
a root-extension *-dh- (diachronically a suffix), resulting in a complex root *wr̥dh-
The thematic suffix *-o-
the neuter gender nominative or accusative singular desinence *-m.

Philosophy

Philosophers have found words objects of fascination since at least the 5^th century BC, with the foundation of the philosophy of language. Plato analyzed words in terms of their origins and the sounds making them up, concluding that there was some connection between sound and meaning though words change a great deal over time. John Locke wrote that the use of words "is to be sensible marks of ideas," though they are chosen "not by any natural connexion that there is between particular articulate sounds and certain ideas, for then there would be but one language amongst all men; but by a voluntary imposition, whereby such a word is made arbitrarily the mark of such an idea".^[5] Wittgenstein's thought transitioned from a word as representation of meaning to "the meaning of a word is its use in the language."^[6]

Classes

Main article: Lexical category

Grammar classifies a language's lexicon into several groups of words. The basic bipartite division possible for virtually every natural language is that of nouns vs. verbs.

The classification into such classes is in the tradition of Dionysius Thrax, who distinguished eight categories: noun, verb, adjective, pronoun, preposition, adverb, conjunction and interjection.

In Indian grammatical tradition, Panini introduced a similar fundamental classification into a nominal (nāma, suP) and a verbal (ākhyāta, tiN) class, based on the set of desinences taken by the word.

Footnotes

^ Katamba 11
^ Fleming 77
^ Adger (2003), pp. 36–7.
^ Bauer 9
^ www.rbjones.com/rbjpub/philos/classics/locke/ctb3c02.htm
^ www.plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein

References

Adger, David (2003). Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Barton, David (1994). Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language. Blackwell Publishing. p. 96.
Bauer, Laurie (1983). English Word-formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-28492-9.
Brown, Keith R. (Ed.) (2005) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed.). Elsevier. 14 vols.
Crystal, David (1995). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (1 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-40179-8.
Fleming, Michael et al. (2001). Meeting the Standards in Secondary English: A Guide to the ITT NC. Routledge. p. 77.
Katamba, Francis (2005). English Words: Structure, History, Usage. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-29892-X.
Plag, Ingo (2003). Word-formation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-52563-2.
Simpson, J.A. and E.S.C. Weiner, ed (1989). Oxford English Dictionary (2 ed.). Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-198-61186-2.

External links

What Is a Word? - a working paper by Larry Trask (see [1] for attribution), Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Sussex.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - ord, besked, løfte, ordre, feltråb
v. tr. - formulere, affatte

idioms:

at a word følge ordre
break one's word bryde sit ord
from the word go på startordet
have a word få et ord
keep one's word holde sit ord
of few words af få ord
of one's word af sit ord
pass the word sprede rygtet
put in a (good) word for lægge et (godt) ord ind for
put words into someone's mouth lægge ord i en andens mund
say the word sige ordet
take a person's word for it tage en persons ord for gode varer
take someone at their word tage en person på ordet, tro en på ordet
Upon my word minsandten, på ære, nu har jeg aldrig kendt mage
word blindness ordblindhed
word class ordklasse
word for word ord for ord
word of honour æresord
word of mouth rygte
word perfect kunne noget på fingrene
word processing ordbearbejdning, [comp.] tekstbehandling
word processor tekstbehandlingsprogram
word wrap tekstombrydning

Nederlands (Dutch)
woord, nieuws, opmerking, belofte, verwoorden zich aan de afspraak houden

Français (French)
n. - mot, nouvelles, nouvelle, parole, rumeur, maître mot, ordre, (Relig, gén) bonne parole, (Comput) mot, paroles (npl), (Théât, Mus) texte (npl)
v. tr. - formuler (une lettre, une réponse)

idioms:

at a word immédiatement, tout de suite
break one's word ne pas tenir sa parole
from the word go dès le départ
have a word parler (un peu) à qn (à propos de qch), en toucher deux mots à (qn)
in a word en un mot
keep one's word tenir ses promesses
of few words (personne) peu loquace
of one's word (être qn) de parole
put in a good word for glisser un mot en faveur de qn
put in a word for glisser un mot pour
put words into someone's mouth faire dire à qn des choses qu'il ne veut pas dire
say the word avoir seulement un mot à dire pour
take someone at their word prendre qn au mot
take someone's word for it croire qn sur parole
take the words out of someone's mouth (fig) avoir retiré de la bouche (un mot, une parole) (à qn)
Upon my word ma parole (excl) (arch), parole d'honneur (excl)
word blindness dyslexie
word class (Ling) partie du discours
word for word mot à mot
word of honour parole d'honneur
word of mouth verbal, verbalement, de vive voix
word perfect (connaître) son texte sur le bout des doigts, (être) parfait (une récitation)
word processing (Comput) traitement de texte
word processor traitement de texte, (Comput) machine à traitement de texte
word up formuler
word wrap (Comput) retour à la ligne automatique

Deutsch (German)
n. - Wort, Vokabel, Nachricht, Text, Kommando, Parole
v. - formulieren

idioms:

at a word sofort
break one's word sein Wort brechen
from the word go von Anfang an
have a word ein Gespräch führen
in a word mit einem Wort
keep one's word sein Wort halten
of few words von wenigen Worten
of one's word von Wort
put in a good word for ein gutes Wort einlegen für
put in a word for [jmdm] jmdn./etw. empfehlen, sich für jmdn./etw. verwenden
put words into someone's mouth jmdm. Worte in den Mund legen
say the word sag nur ein Wort
take someone at their word jmdn. beim Wort nehmen
take someone's word for it sich auf jmdn. od. jmds. Wort[e] verlassen
take the words out of someone's mouth jmdm. das Wort aus dem Munde nehmen
Upon my word auf mein Wort, meiner Treu!
word blindness Wortblindheit
word class Redeteil, Wortklasse
word for word Wort für Wort
word of honour Ehrenwort
word of mouth mündliche Mitteilung
word perfect perfekt vorgetragen, perfekt beherrschend
word processing Textverarbeitung
word processor Textverarbeitungssystem
word up jdn. warnen
word wrap Text verpacken

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - λέξη, (έναρθρος) λόγος, είδηση, μήνυμα, παραγγελία, λόγος, υπόσχεση, παρατήρηση, είδηση, ειδοποίηση, μήνυμα, νέο, (αναγνωριστικό) σύνθημα
v. - διατυπώνω, εκφράζω, συντάσσω

idioms:

at a word μόλις το ζητήσετε
break one's word αθετώ το λόγο μου
from the word go από την πρώτη στιγμή
have a word λέω δυο κουβέντες
keep one's word τηρώ το λόγο μου
of few words λιγόλογος
of one's word που κρατά το λόγο του
pass one's word δίνω το λόγο μου
pass the word διαδίδω τα νέα, μεταφέρω τις ειδήσεις
put in a (good) word for λέω έναν καλό λόγο για
put words into someone's mouth βάζω λόγια στο στόμα κάποιου
say the word δίνω εντολή, εκφράζω επιθυμία
take a person's word for it πιστεύω, δέχομαι το λόγο κάποιου για κάτι
take someone at their word βασίζομαι στο λόγο κάποιου
Upon my word στο λόγο μου!
word blindness (παθολ.) αλεξία, λεκτική τύφλωση
word class ομάδα λέξεων, μέρος του λόγου
word for word κατά λέξη, λέξη προς λέξη
word of honour λόγος τιμής
word of mouth προφορικά, στόμα με στόμα
word order σειρά των λέξεων
word perfect (για ρόλους κ.λπ.) τέλειας αποστήθισης ή απαγγελίας
word processing (Η/Υ) επεξεργασία κειμένου
word processor (Η/Υ) επεξεργαστής κειμένου
word wrap (Η/Υ) αναδίπλωση γραμμών κειμένου

Italiano (Italian)
parola, formulare, voce, notizie

idioms:

be as good as one's word mantenere la parola
break one's word rompere la parola data
from the word go fin dall'inizio
hang on someone's every word prestare grande attenzione, pendere dalle labbra di qualcuno
have a word conversare
keep one's word mantenere la parola
of few words di poche parole
of one's word affidabile, di parola
pass the word far sapere, passare parola
play on words gioco di parole
put in a (good) word for mettere una buona parola per
put words into someone's mouth mettere le parole in bocca a qualcuno
say the word dare il via
take a person at his/her word prendere sul serio, prendere qualcuno sulla parola
take a person's word for it credere ciecamente a
Upon my word! Parola d'onore!
word blindness alessia
word class classe di parole
word of mouth sentito dire
word perfect perfetto
word processing trattamento testi
word processor elaboratore testi

Português (Portuguese)
n. - palavra (f), conversa (f), informação (f)
v. - exprimir

idioms:

be as good as one's word pode-se acreditar nele
break one's word quebrar uma promessa
from the word go a partir do início
have a word falar
keep one's word manter a palavra
of few words de poucas palavras
of one's word exibindo dependência pessoal
pass the word passar a palavra
play on words fazer jogo de palavras
put in a (good) word for exprimir-se favoravelmente
put words into someone's mouth inventar algo sobre uma outra pessoa
say the word dar as ordens, dar o sinal para avançar
take a person at his/her word considerar ao pé da letra
take a person's word for it acreditar na pessoa
Upon my word! ao meu comando!
word blindness dislexia (f) (Med.)
word class classe (Gram.)
word of mouth verbal
word perfect conhecer
word processing processamento de texto
word processor processador de texto (m)

Русский (Russian)
слово, разговор, размолвка, совет, вести, сообщение, обещание, рекомендация, приказ, пароль, пословица, слух, текст (песни, роли), либретто

idioms:

be as good as one's word держать слово
break one's word нарушить слово
from the word go с самого начала, с начала до конца, основательно
hang on someone's every word ловить чьи-л. слова, внимательно прислушиваться к кому-л.
have a word сказать несколько слов, побеседовать
keep one's word сдержать свое слово, обещание
of few words немногословный
of one's word человек слова
pass the word передавать приказание
play on words каламбур, игра слов, каламбурить
put in a (good) word for хвалить кого-л., замолвить за кого-л. словечко
put words into someone's mouth навязать кому-л. свои слова, подсказывать кому-л. что надо говорить, приписывать кому-л. то, что он не говорил
say the word высказать желание, приказать
take a person at his/her word поверить кому-л. на слово
take a person's word for it уверяю вас, поверьте кому-л.
Upon my word! честное слово!
word blindness потеря способности читать, алексия
word class часть речи
word of mouth устно, на словах
word perfect знающий наизусть
word processing электронная обработка текста
word processor устройство для электронной обработки текста, "электронный редактор"

Español (Spanish)
n. - palabra, vocablo, término, noticia, recado, santo y seña
v. tr. - expresar, redactar, formular, enunciar

idioms:

at a word respuesta inmediata
break one's word faltar a su palabra
from the word go desde el primer momento
have a word hablar de algo con alguien, tener algo que decir
in a word en una palabra, en resumidas cuentas
keep one's word cumplir su palabra
of few words lacónico, de pocas palabras
of one's word de entera confianza
put in a good word for recomendar a alguien, decir unas palabras en favor de alguien, interceder, hablar a favor de
put in a word for recomendar a alguien, decir unas palabras en favor de alguien, interceder, hablar a favor de
put words into someone's mouth atribuirle a alguien algo que no dijo
say the word dar su aprobación
take someone at their word tomarles la palabra
take someone's word for it fiarse de la palabra de alguien
take the words out of someone's mouth quitarle a alguien las palabras de la boca
Upon my word ¡válgame Dios!, por mi palabra!
word blindness alexia, incapacidad de identificar palabras escritas o impresas a causa de un defecto cerebral
word class categoría gramatical de las palabras
word for word palabra por palabra
word of honour palabra de honor
word of mouth comunicado verbalmente, oral
word perfect saber de memoria (su papel)
word processing procesamiento o tratamiento de textos
word processor procesador de textos
word up ponerlo en palabras, darle forma (a una idea) con palabras
word wrap escritura continua

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - ord, yttrande, löfte, meddelande, lösen, motto, kommando
v. - uttrycka

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
字, 消息, 话, 词, 用言词表达

idioms:

at a word 立即, 简而言之
break one's word 失信
from the word go 从一开始
have a word 说悄悄话, 对...说, 尤指私下的或秘密的事
keep one's word 守信
of few words 沉默寡言
of one's word 守信的
pass the word 传话
put in a (good) word for 为...美言几句
put words into someone's mouth 教某人如何讲
say the word 吩咐一下
take a person's word for it 相信某人的话
take someone at their word 相信某人的话
Upon my word 的确
word blindness 失读症, 阅读困难
word class 词类, 字类
word for word 逐字地
word of honour 名誉
word of mouth 口头的, 口述的
word perfect 熟记台词的
word processing 字处理
word processor 文字处理软件
word wrap 自动换行

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 字, 消息, 話, 詞
v. tr. - 用言詞表達

idioms:

at a word 立即, 簡而言之
break one's word 失信
from the word go 從一開始
have a word 說悄悄話, 對...說, 尤指私下的或祕密的事
keep one's word 守信
of few words 沉默寡言
of one's word 守信的
pass the word 傳話
put in a (good) word for 為...美言幾句
put words into someone's mouth 教某人如何講
say the word 吩咐一下
take a person's word for it 相信某人的話
take someone at their word 相信某人的話
Upon my word 的確
word blindness 失讀症, 閱讀困難
word class 詞類, 字類
word for word 逐字地
word of honour 名譽
word of mouth 口頭的, 口述的
word perfect 熟記臺詞的
word processing 字處理
word processor 文書處理軟體
word wrap 自動換行

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 말, 이야기, 약속
v. tr. - 말로 나타내다

idioms:

at a word 일언지하에, 곧
break one's word 약속을 깨뜨리다, 약속을 어기다
have a word 간단히 이야기 하다
keep one's word 약속을 지키다
put in a (good) word for ~을 추천하다, ~을 칭찬하다, ~을 조언하다
put words into someone's mouth 아무에게 말할 것을 가르치다, 아무의 입을 빌려 말하게 하다
take a person's word for it 아무의 말을 믿다
take someone at their word 아무의 말을 곧이 듣다, 말하는 대로 믿다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 語, 単語, 言葉, 話, 約束, 保証, 知らせ, 口論, 指示, 聖書
v. - ことばで表す

idioms:

from the word go 初めから
have a word 話がある
mum's the word 黙っているんだよ
of one's word 約束を守る人
printed word 印刷文字
put in a (good) word for 口添えする
take a person's word for it 真に受ける
word blindness 言語盲
word class 語類, 品詞
word of mouth 口頭
word order 語順
word perfect 丸暗記する
word processing 文書処理
word processor ワープロ, ワードプロセッサー

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) كلمه, لفظه, عبارة, نص, رساله, وعد (فعل) يتكلم, يقول, ينص, يلفظ‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מילה, דבר, דיבור, ידיעה, הודעה, סיסמה, פקודה, דברה, הבטחה, אמירה, יחידת אחסון נתונים בסיסית במחשב‬
v. tr. - ‮ניסח, סגנן, ביטא במלים‬

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