Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

exocentric compound

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ex-o-cen-tric -com-pound
IPA

36

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

6

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

a grammatical compound not having the same syntactic function in the sentence as any one of its immediate constituents.

Example Sentences

"The noun ‘bittersweet’ is an exocentric compound, since it is a noun but its elements are both adjectives."

Questions

What does exocentric compound mean?: a grammatical compound not having the same syntactic function in the sentence as any one of its immediate constituents.

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