Grammar Definition

grămər
noun
The study of how words and their component parts combine to form sentences.
American Heritage
That part of the study of language which deals with the forms and structure of words (morphology), with their customary arrangement in phrases and sentences (syntax), and now often with language sounds (phonology) and word meanings (semantics)
Webster's New World

A body of rules imposed on a given language for speaking and writing it, based on the study of its grammar or on some adaptation of another, esp. Latin, grammar.

Webster's New World
The system of a given language at a given time.
Webster's New World
A book or treatise on grammar.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb

(obsolete, intransitive) To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.

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Other Word Forms of Grammar

Noun

Singular:
grammar
Plural:
grammars

Origin of Grammar

  • From Middle English gramarye, gramery, from Old French gramaire (“classical learning”), from Latin grammatica, from Ancient Greek γραμματική (grammatike, “skilled in writing”), from γράμμα (gramma, “line of writing”), from γράφω (grapho, “write”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerebh- (“to scratch”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English gramere from Old French gramaire alteration of Latin grammatica from Greek grammatikē from feminine of grammatikos of letters from gramma grammat- letter gerbh- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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