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grammatical meaning

noun

  1. the meaning of an inflectional morpheme or of some other syntactic device, as word order.


grammatical meaning

noun

  1. the meaning of a word by reference to its function within a sentence rather than to a world outside the sentence Compare lexical meaning function word
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of grammatical meaning1

First recorded in 1760–70
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Example Sentences

But this is not all; when I had examined this passage attentively, I found it also to be lacking in grammatical meaning.

Towards that end, discrimination of the usual or grammatical meaning of words was indispensable.

The mere grammatical meaning of the word 'martyr' breaks into pieces at a blow the whole notion of the privacy of goodness.

The barbarous Latin of the Vita is so uncouth and unformed as to convey no certain grammatical meaning.

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