(linguistics, lexicography) A word that is not a function word, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and most adverbs.

(linguistics) A word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, such as prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, or conjunctions.

(computer science, computational linguistics) The collection of words from an unprocessed text without regard to grammar.

plural of last word

The final remarks uttered by a person before death.

(idiomatic, often preceded by the and followed by in) The finest, highest, or ultimate representative of some class of objects.

(idiomatic) The rumour or news going around.

The number of words in a passage, a text, a speech, a corpus, etc.

Describes a person who suffers from word blindness or alexia.

Synonym of alexia