grammar

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
2. (uncountable) A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
3. (uncountable) Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.
4. (countable) A book describing the grammar (sense 1 or sense 2) of a language.
5. (countable) A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
6. (countable) A formal system defining a formal language.
7. (countable, figuratively) The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.
8. (British, archaic, countable) A book describing these rules or principles; a textbook.
9. (British, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of grammar school.
10. (countable) A set of component patterns, along with the rules for connecting them, which can be combined to form more complex patterns such as large still lifes, oscillators, and spaceships.

Verb

To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.

Synonyms

syntax

linguistics

structure

grammatical

grammatics

grammar book

wording

usage

words

G

Hebrew grammar

grammatical analysis

linguistic science

one of the six

trivium

diction

expressions

phrase

phraseology

talk

🗣️

article

Translations

grammaire

Grammatik

gramática

gramática

grammatica

γραμματική

grammatica

gramàtica

spraakkunst

Sprachlehre

spraakleer

dil bilgisi

grammatica

gramer

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɡɹæ.mə(ɹ)/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: gramere

In summary

From Middle English gramere, from Old French gramaire (“classical learning”), from unattested Vulgar Latin *grammāria, an alteration of Latin grammatica, from Ancient Greek γραμματική (grammatikḗ, “skilled in writing”), from γράμμα (grámma, “line of writing”), from γράφω (gráphō, “write”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to carve, scratch”). Displaced native Old English stæfcræft; a doublet of glamour, glamoury, gramarye, and grimoire. Piecewise doublet of grammatic.

Sentences

Their accents and some aspects of grammar can also sometimes exhibit Tagalog influence .