Part Of Speech Definition

parts-of-speech
noun
Any of the classes of words of a given language to which a word can be assigned: different kinds of grammar have different criteria for classifying words, as form, function or meaning, or combinations of these: in traditional English grammar, patterned after Latin grammar, the parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
Webster's New World
One of a group of theoretical classifications of words according to their syntactic, morphological, and semantic properties, such as the noun, determiner, verb, adjective, adverb, complementizer, preposition, and conjunction.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
adjective
Attributive form of part of speech, noun.
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Other Word Forms of Part Of Speech

Noun

Singular:
part of speech
Plural:
parts-of-speech

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