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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

word family en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:language teaching) A set of etymologically related words consisting of a single word with its inflections and derivations, such as walk, walked, walks, walking, walkings, walker, walkers, walkies, walkable, walkathon.
    • Furthermore, the current study goes beyond previous wordlist development by contributing accompanying pedagogical lists containing word associations (i.e. collocations) and word families. 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 106:

Forms

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word families Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (5)

cs slovní čeleď (a set of etymologically related words) · de Wortfamilie (a set of etymologically related words) · hu szócsalád (a set of etymologically related words) · sq çerdhe fjalësh (a set of etymologically related words) · pl rodzina wyrazów (a set of etymologically related words)