feature of speech

1. 1.

   (linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind

   Synonymsfeature

   Broaderproperty

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Questions about feature of speech

What does feature of speech mean?

feature of speech means "(linguistics) a distinctive characteristic of a linguistic unit that serves to distinguish it from other units of the same kind".

What is another word for feature of speech?

Close synonyms include feature. 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 feature of speech a common word?

feature of speech 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.