WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
func′tion word′,
- Oceanography, Linguisticsa word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word). Also called form word.
- 1935–40
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