English Word

An English Word is a language-specific word drawn from the English Language/English Vocabulary.

• Context:
  • It can be a member of an English Vocabulary.
  • It can be:
    • an Orthographic Word;
    • a Syntactic Word;
    • a Dictionary Word.
  • It can be:
    • an English Noun;
    • an English Verb.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • dog(s), http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dog
  • the, http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/the
  • from, http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/from
  • came, http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/came
  • yesterday, http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yesterday
  • employee, http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Angestellter
  • life,http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Leben
  • insurance, http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Versicherung
  • life insurance,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensversicherung
  • company, (~') http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gesellschaft
  • Schadenfreude, a Loan Word http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
• See: German Word.

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References

2007

• (Shorter OED, 2007) ⇒ Oxford University Press. (2007). “Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 6th edition.

1999

• (M-W Colleg. Dict., 1999) ⇒ Merriam-Webster. (1999). “Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition.

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