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Noun: grammatical meaning  gru'ma-ti-kul 'mee-ning
  1. The meaning of a word that depends on its role in a sentence; varies with inflectional form
    "The grammatical meaning of 'runs' in 'She runs' indicates present tense and third person singular"

Derived forms: grammatical meanings

Type of: import, meaning, significance, signification

Part of: closed-class word, function word, functor