1 : a vowel that is not stressed and is the usual sound of the first and last vowels of the English word America

2 : the symbol commonly used

: a book of words and their synonyms and antonyms

: the history or origin of a word

a way of acting out or creating a situation like one in the real world

: a word having the same or almost the same meaning as another word in the same language

: a word of opposite meaning

: one of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning

1 : greater stress or force given to a syllable of a word in speaking

2 : a mark or symbol (as ´, `, or ^) identifying a syllable that is stressed in speaking

1 : a unit of spoken language that consists of one or more vowel sounds alone or with one or more consonant sounds preceding or following. Words are usually separated into their parts by dots, hyphens, or spaces in a dictionary.

: to arrange in alphabetical order

: either of the terms at the head of a page in a dictionary indicating the alphabetically first and last entries on the page

: a word entered in a list or book; especially : a word in boldface type that is being explained in a dictionary

: the act or way of saying a word or words

: a class of words (as adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, interjections, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, or verbs) identified according to the kinds of ideas they express and the way they work in a sentence

an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole <the expression "give way," meaning "retreat," is an example

1. a history of a person's life

2. a separate section in a dictionary (usually at the back) that has information on famous people

1 : a science that deals with the location of living and nonliving things on earth

2 : a section in the dictionary (usually in the back) that has locations of famous places

the change in the form of a word showing its case, gender, number, person, tense, mood, voice, or comparison