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grammar.

A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/Australia, Received-Pronunciation/ˈɡɹæm.ɚ/Canada, General-American[ˈɡɹɛəm.ɚ]Canada, General-American[ˈɡɹæːm.ɚ]Canada
  1. A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.

    countable · uncountable
  2. A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general. The study of such a system.

    uncountable
  3. Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.

    uncountable
  4. A book describing the grammar (noun sense 1 or noun sense 2) of a language.

    countable
  5. A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.

    countable
  6. A formal system defining a formal language.

    countable
  7. The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.

    countable · figuratively
  8. A book describing these rules or principles; a textbook.

    UK · archaic · countable
    a grammar of geography
  9. Ellipsis of grammar school.

    UK · abbreviation · alt-of · countable · ellipsis · informal · uncountable
  10. 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.

    countable
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.

verb/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/Australia, Received-Pronunciation/ˈɡɹæm.ɚ/Canada, General-American[ˈɡɹɛəm.ɚ]Canada, General-American[ˈɡɹæːm.ɚ]Canada
  1. To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.

    intransitive · obsolete
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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