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/wɜːd/ · noun
(semantics) The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.).
But every word, whether written or spoken, which urges the woman to antagonism against the man, every word which is written or spoken to try and make of her a hybrid, self-contained opponent of men, makes a rift in the lute to which the world looks for its sweetest music.
The word, whether written or spoken, does not look like or sound like its meaning — it does not resemble its signified. We only connect the two because we have learnt the code — language. Without such knowledge, 'Maggie' would just be a meaningless pattern of shapes or sounds.
Brian and Abby signed the word clothing, in which the thumbs brush down the chest as though something is hanging there. They both spoke the word clothing. Brian then signed the word for change, […]
Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
[…] she believed them still so very much attached to each other, that they could not be too sedulously divided in word and deed on every occasion.
As they fell apart against Austria, England badly needed someone capable of leading by word and example.
And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
She said; but at the happy word "he lives", / My father stooped, re-fathered, o'er my wound.
Use word when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Word means (semantics) The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.).
Common synonyms include vocable, word, lexeme, promise.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
But every word, whether written or spoken, which urges the woman to antagonism against the man, every word which is written or spoken to try and make of her a hybrid, self-contained opponent of men, makes a rift in the lute to which the world looks for its sweetest music.
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