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Noun: word class  wurd klãs
  1. One of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context
    "Nouns, verbs, and adjectives are examples of word classes";
    - part of speech, form class

Derived forms: word classes

Type of: grammatical category, syntactic category

Encyclopedia: Word class