a short form of a word or phrase, for example: tbc = to be confirmed; CIA = the Central Intelligence Agency

a word that means the opposite of another word

a word that is often used with another word

a combination of two or more words that is used as a single word. The three different types of compound are noun compound, adjective compound and verb compound.

a list of the words used in a text or group of texts. The normal way of consulting a corpus is to look at concordances which show words in the context in which they occur.

a speech sound made by stopping all or some of the air going out of your mouth

a collection of written and/or spoken language stored on a computer or on the Internet, and used for language research and writing dictionaries

a countable noun is a noun that has a plural and can be used after a or an when it is singular

the words that are used to explain the meanings of words in a dictionary

a statement of what a word or expression means