part of speech

Questions about part of speech

What is another word for part of speech?

It depends which part of speech you mean. In the sense “one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context”, the synonyms are form class, word class. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of part of speech?

WordNet records no antonym for part of speech. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for part of speech come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of part of speech

• Full entry for part of speechAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for part of speechWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.