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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

part′ of speech′(n.)

  1. any of the classes into which words in a language have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.

    Category: Grammar

Origin of part of speech:

1500–10

Princeton's WordNet

  1. part of speech, form class, word class(noun)

    one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. part of speech(noun)ˈpɑrt nərˌʃɪp

    the grammatical classification of a word

Wiktionary

  1. part of speech(Noun)

    A linguistic category of words sharing syntactic or morphological behaviour and semantic properties, such as noun or verb.

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

part of speech(adverb)

one of the groups into which words are divided (eg noun, verb, adjective etc).

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