grammatical constituent

1. 1.

   (grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction

   Synonymsconstituent

   Broadersyntagma

   Narrowersubjectobjectablative absoluteimmediate constituentconstructionmisconstructionterm

   Part ofsentence

   grammar

Questions about grammatical constituent

What does grammatical constituent mean?

grammatical constituent means "(grammar) a word or phrase or clause forming part of a larger grammatical construction".

What is another word for grammatical constituent?

Close synonyms include constituent. 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 grammatical constituent a common word?

grammatical constituent 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.