Grammar: Definition and part of speech

Grammar

  1. v. i. To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.
  2. n. The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use aud application of the rules of a language, in speaking or writing.
  3. n. The art of speaking or writing with correctness or according to established usage; speech considered with regard to the rules of a grammar.
  4. n. A treatise on the principles of language; a book containing the principles and rules for correctness in speaking or writing.
  5. n. treatise on the elements or principles of any science; as, a grammar of geography.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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