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Word Meaning and Definition from WordNet (r) 2.0
    word n
  1. a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"
  2. a brief statement; "he didn't say a word about it"
  3. new information about specific and timely events; "they awaited news of the outcome" [syn: news, intelligence, tidings]
  4. the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus) [syn: Son, Logos]
  5. a promise; "he gave his word" [syn: parole, word of honor]
  6. a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group; "he forgot the password" [syn: password, watchword, parole, countersign]
  7. an exchange of views on some topic; "we had a good discussion"; "we had a word or two about it" [syn: discussion, give-and-take]
  8. the sacred writings of the Christian religions; "he went to carry the Word to the heathen" [syn: Bible, Christian Bible, Book, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word of God]
  9. a verbal command for action; "when I give the word, charge!"
  10. a word is a string of bits stored in computer memory; "large computers use words up to 64 bits long" v : put into words or an expression; "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees" [syn: give voice, formulate, phrase, articulate]
Word Meaning and Definition from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
    Word \Word\, n. [AS. word; akin to OFries. & OS. word, D. woord, G. wort, Icel. or[eth], Sw. & Dan. ord, Goth. wa['u]rd, OPruss. wirds, Lith. vardas a name, L. verbum a word; or perhaps to Gr. "rh`twr an orator. Cf. Verb.]
  1. The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal 220 catflap.bishopston.net dictd 1.11.2/rf on FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE <114468.92304.1290875072@catflap.bishopston.net>
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Wikipedia Meaning and Definition on 'Word'


A word is the smallest free form (an item that may be uttered in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content) in a language, in contrast to a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of meaning. A word may consist of only one morpheme (e.g. wolf), but a single morpheme may not be able to exist as a free form (e.g. the English plural morpheme -s).

Typically, a word will include a root or stem, and it may also include one or more affixes. Words can be combined to create other units of language, such as phrases, clauses, and/or sentences. A word consisting of two or more stems joined together form a compound.

Word may refer to a spoken word or a written word, or sometimes, the abstract concept behind either. Spoken words are made up of phonemes, and written words of graphemes.

The ease or difficulty of deciphering a word depends on the language. Dictionaries categorize a language's lexicon (i.e., its vocabulary) into lemmas. These can be taken as an indication of what constitutes a "word" in the opinion of the writers.

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* Will Where's Elizabeth Jack She's safe, just like I promised. She's all set to marry Norrington, just like she promised. And you get to die for her, just like you promised. So we're all men of our word really... except for Elizabeth, who is in fact, a woman. - Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl

* Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of. - Douglas Adams

* Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


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