Constituent

Quick meaning: Constituent is an adjective meaning Being a part or component of a whole.

Meaning

Being a part or component of a whole.

More Meanings

1. Constitutive or constituting.
2. A part, or component of a whole.
3. A person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs.
4. A resident of an area represented by an elected official, particularly in relation to that official.
5. (politics) A voter who supports a (political) candidate; a supporter of a cause.
6. (law) One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact
7. (grammar) A functional element of a phrase or clause.

Example Sentences

Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man.

We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water.

The skeleton varies in the proportions, and even to a certain extent in the connexions, of its constituent bones.

Just as a regiment is ultimately made up of soldiers, so the sentence is of morphemes—they are its ultimate constituents.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for constituent

Depending on context, synonyms include component, element, factor, constitutive, organic, constitutional.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include component, fractional, factor, constitutive, constitutional, essential.

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