grammar
nounverbattested in dialogue
- Canada//ˈɡɹæm.ɚ//
- Canada/[ˈɡɹɛəm.ɚ]/
- Canada/[ˈɡɹæːm.ɚ]/
- Canada/[ˈɡɹam.ɚ]/
- Australia//ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)//
A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
noun
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A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
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A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general. The study of such a system.
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Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.
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A book describing the grammar (noun sense 1 or noun sense 2) of a language.
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A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
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A formal system defining a formal language.
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figurativeThe basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.
We must learn a new grammar of power in a world that is made up more of the common good – or the common bad – than of self-interest or national interest.
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archaicA book describing these rules or principles; a textbook.
a grammar of geography
To turn this sort of mixture of a gossip and a gospel into anything like a grammar of Distributism has been quite impossible.
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A set of component patterns, along with the rules for connecting them, which can be combined to form more complex patterns such as large still lifes, oscillators, and spaceships.
Hickerson has a computer program which found a spaceship with speed c/3. In fact a whole grammar of them.
Dean's discovery included a much more plentiful family than just the light, medium, and heavy weight spaceships that have been known since the beginning, which he was able to organize into a series of tiles and a grammar for them.
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Variant of grammar schoolinformalEllipsis of grammar school.
He’s the old man’s only son. Some baby! Yep, right behind ya. Nope, he donno me. I was in Grammar when he was in High.
[object Object]
Etymology
From Middle English gramere, from Old French gramaire (“classical learning”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *grammāria, an alteration of Latin grammatica, from Ancient Greek γραμματική (grammatikḗ, “skilled in writing”), from γράμμα (grámma, “line of writing”), from γράφω (gráphō, “write”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to carve, scratch”). Displaced native Old English stæfcræft; a doublet of glamour, glamoury, gramarye, and grimoire. Piecewise doublet of grammatic.
verb
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obsoleteTo discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.
She is in her Moods, and her Tenses: / I'll Grammar with you, / And make a trial how I can decline you
Forms
- plural
- grammars
- past tense
- grammared
- past participle
- grammared
- present participle
- grammaring
- third person singular
- grammars
grammar · A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
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