grammar.
A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
Meaning & usage
A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general. The study of such a system.
Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.
A book describing the grammar (noun sense 1 or noun sense 2) of a language.
A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
A formal system defining a formal language.
The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.
A book describing these rules or principles; a textbook.
a grammar of geography
Ellipsis of grammar school.
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.
Where this word comes from
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.
To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.
Where this word comes from
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.
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