compound word
English
Noun
compound word (plural compound words)
- (linguistics) A word composed of two or more stems. Examples include pancake, two-tone, and school bus – in English, it may or may not have a space or hyphen.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- closed compound
- hyphenated compound
- open compound
Translations
word composed of others
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