grammatical meaning
noun
the meaning of an inflectional morpheme or of some other syntactic device, as word order.
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lexical meaning.
Origin of grammatical meaning
First recorded in 1760–70
Words nearby grammatical meaning
grammar school,
grammar-translation method,
grammarian,
grammatical,
grammatical gender,
grammatical meaning,
grammaticality,
grammaticalize,
grammaticism,
grammatology,
gramme
British Dictionary definitions for grammatical meaning
grammatical meaning
noun
the meaning of a word by reference to its function within a sentence rather than to a world outside the sentence
Compare lexical meaning, function word