"lexical category" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: lexical categories [plural]
Etymology: lexical + category Etymology templates: {{com|en|lexical|category}} lexical + category Head templates: {{en-noun}} lexical category (plural lexical categories)
  1. (linguistics) A linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question, such as noun or verb. Wikipedia link: lexical category Categories (topical): Linguistics Synonyms: word class, lexical class, part of speech Translations (linguistic category of words): 詞彙範疇 (Chinese Mandarin), 词汇范畴 (cíhuì fànchóu) (Chinese Mandarin), 詞類 (Chinese Mandarin), 词类 (cílèi) (Chinese Mandarin), 詞性 (Chinese Mandarin), 词性 (cíxìng) (Chinese Mandarin), slovní druh [masculine] (Czech), sanaluokka (Finnish), partie du discours [feminine] (French), catégorie lexicale [feminine] (French), classe lexicale [feminine] (French), nature [feminine] (French), szófaj (Hungarian), 品詞 (hinshi) (Japanese), 품사 (pumsa) (Korean)

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