word

Noun
  1. is a type of: language unit, linguistic unit - one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed
    subtypes:
    • anagram - a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
    • anaphor - a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent
    • antonym, opposite, opposite word - a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other
    • paronym - a word that strongly resembles another word in spelling
    • back-formation - a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it
    • charade - a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades
    • cognate, cognate word - a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language
    • content word, open-class word - a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned
    • contraction - a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds
    • deictic, deictic word - a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs
    • derivative - (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word
    • diminutive - a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness
    • dirty word - a word that is considered to be unmentionable
    • dissyllable, disyllable - a word having two syllables
    • descriptor, form, signifier, word form - the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something
    • four-letter anglo-saxon word, four-letter word - any of several short English words (often having 4 letters) generally regarded as obscene or offensive
    • closed-class word, function word - a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning
    • catchword, guide word, guideword - a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page
    • head, head word - (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
    • headword - a word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry)
    • heteronym - two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation
    • holonym, whole name - a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part
    • homonym - two words are homonyms if they are pronounced and spelled the same way but have different meanings
    • hypernym, superordinate, superordinate word - a word that is more generic than a given word
    • hyponym, subordinate, subordinate word - a word that is more specific than a given word
    • key word - a significant word used in indexing or cataloging
    • hybrid, loan-blend, loanblend - a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)
    • loan, loanword - a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English
    • meronym, part name - a word that names a part of a larger whole
    • metonym - a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing
    • monosyllabic word, monosyllable - a word or utterance of one syllable
    • coinage, neologism, neology - a newly invented word or phrase
    • hapax legomenon, nonce word - a word with a special meaning used for a special occasion
    • oxytone - word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable
    • palindrome - a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward
    • primitive - a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
    • paroxytone - word having stress or acute accent on the next to last syllable
    • partitive - word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole
    • polysemant, polysemantic word, polysemous word - a word having more than one meaning
    • polysyllabic word, polysyllable - a word of more than three syllables
    • proparoxytone - word having stress or acute accent on the antepenult
    • quantifier - (grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as `fifteen' or `many')
    • logical quantifier, quantifier - (logic) a word (such as `some' or `all' or `no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition
    • reduplication - a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word)
    • retronym - a word introduced because an existing term has become inadequate
    • substantive - any word or group of words functioning as a noun
    • equivalent word, synonym - two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context
    • term - a word or expression used for some particular thing
    • language, nomenclature, terminology - a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
    • trisyllable - a word having three syllables
    • manner name, troponym - a word that denotes a manner of doing something
    • spoken word, vocable - a word that is spoken aloud
    • classifier - a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs
    • written word - the written form of a word
    • syncategorem, syncategoreme - a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition
    has:
    • syllable - a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme
    • affix - a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form
  2. is a type of: statement - a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc
  3. is a type of: info, information - a message received and understood
    subtypes:
    same as: intelligence, news, tidings
  4. is a type of: order - (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed
  5. is a type of: language, oral communication, speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, voice communication - (language) communication by word of mouth
    subtypes:
    same as: discussion, give-and-take
  6. is a type of: promise - a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future
    same as: parole, word of honor
  7. is a type of: computer memory unit - a unit for measuring computer memory
    has: byte - a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information
    is a part of: k, kb, kib, kibibyte, kilobyte - a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes
  8. is an instance of: hypostasis, hypostasis of christ - any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united
    specific instances:
    same as: logos, son
  9. is a type of:
    • arcanum, secret - information known only to a special group
    • positive identification - evidence proving that you are who you say you are; evidence establishing that you are among the group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to acceptance
    same as: countersign, parole, password, watchword
  10. associated with:
    • covenant - (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return
    • eisegesis - personal interpretation of a text (especially of the Bible) using your own ideas
    • exegesis - an explanation or critical interpretation (especially of the Bible)
    • gabriel - (Bible) the archangel who was the messenger of God
    • noachian deluge, noah and the flood, noah's flood, the flood - (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings
    • demythologise, demythologize - remove the mythical element from (writings)
    is a type of: religious text, religious writing, sacred text, sacred writing - writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity
    subtypes: family bible - a large Bible with pages to record marriages and births
    specific instances:
    has:
    • old testament - the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible
    • testament - either of the two main parts of the Christian Bible
    • new testament - the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible
    • text - a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon
    same as: bible, book, christian bible, good book, holy scripture, holy writ, scripture, word of god
Verb
  1. is a type of: evince, express, show - give expression to
    subtypes:
    same as: articulate, formulate, give voice, phrase

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