Meanings
plural grammatical categories
- human sciencesPart of speech.
First, the AWL lacks part-of-speech information so does not allow users to see which vocabulary can be used for multiple grammatical categories nor which grammatical category is more frequent.
2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 107
Synonyms & antonyms
noun(grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Cite this entry
grammatical category. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grammatical%20category
“grammatical category.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/grammatical%20category. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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