grammar

About 13.33 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general. The study of such a system.
2. noun The study of such a system.
3. noun Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.
4. noun A book describing the grammar (noun sense 1 or noun sense 2) of a language.
5. noun (Can we verify this sense?) A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
6. noun A formal system defining a formal language.
7. noun The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.
8. noun A book describing these rules or principles; a textbook.

   a grammar of geography

Similar words

elementary exocentric endocentric primary secondary baccalaureate morphology syntax linguistics morphosyntax

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Word family

grammarian grammarians grammars