word

Roget category 562

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#562. Word

noun

word, term, vocable — name etc. 564 — phrase etc. 566 — root, etymon — derivative — part of speech etc. (grammar) 567 — ideophone^†.
dictionary, vocabulary, lexicon, glossary — index, concordance — thesaurus — gradus [Lat.], delectus [Lat.].
etymology, derivation — glossology^†, terminology orismology^† — paleology etc. (philology) 560^†.
lexicography — glossographer etc. (scholar) 492 — lexicologist, verbarian^†.

adjective

verbal, literal — titular, nominal.
conjugate [Similarly derived], paronymous^† — derivative.

adverb

verbally etc. adj. — verbatim etc. (exactly) 494.

phrase

the artillery of words" [Swift].

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