content word

Questions about content word

What does content word mean?

content word means "a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned".

What is another word for content word?

Close synonyms include open-class word. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is content word a common word?

content word is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.