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/ˈwɝd/

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“… to march and the word comes in that no …”

meanings of word

noun:

The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes.
The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. .
A finite string that is not a command or operator.
A promise; an oath or guarantee.
The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes.
An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.).
A proverb or motto.
Logos, Christ.
A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register).
News; tidings (used without an article).
Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning.
A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
Something like such a unit of language:.
See words.
The creative word of God; logos.
Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech.
A brief discussion or conversation.
A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
Scripture; The Bible.

verb:

To speak, to use words; to converse, to discourse.
To ply or overpower with words.
To flatter with words, to cajole.
To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).
Alternative form of worth (“to become").
To conjure with a word.

interjection:

Truth, indeed, that is the truth! The shortened form of the statement "My word is my bond.".
An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval.

name:

Microsoft Word, word processor software developed by Microsoft.

word frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word word occurs in english on average 258.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics word can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that word can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;