Polysynthesis: Definition and part of speech

Polysynthesis

  1. n. The formation of a word by the combination of several simple words, as in the aboriginal languages of America; agglutination.
  2. n. The act or process of combining many separate elements into a whole.

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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