function word (English, noun)
expansion: function word (plural function words)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, including conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, certain frequent adverbs.
Forms:
form: function words
tags: plural