part of speech

noun Grammar.

any of the classes into which words in some languages, as Latin and English, have traditionally been divided on the basis of their meaning, form, or syntactic function, as, in English, noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.

Origin of part of speech

First recorded in 1500–10

Words nearby part of speech

part and parcel, part company, part exchange, part music, part of fortune, part of speech, part song, part time, part with, part work, part-off

British Dictionary definitions for part of speech

part of speech

noun

a class of words sharing important syntactic or semantic features; a group of words in a language that may occur in similar positions or fulfil similar functions in a sentence. The chief parts of speech in English are noun, pronoun, adjective, determiner, adverb, verb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection Abbreviation: POS