exocentric

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Definitions of exocentric word

noun exocentric Denoting or being a construction that has no explicit head, for example John slept. 1
adjective exocentric (of a construction) not fulfilling the grammatical role of any of its constituents; as in until last Easter, where the constituents are prepositional, adjectival, and nominal, while the whole construction is adverbial 0
adjective exocentric designating or of a construction whose syntactic function is different from that of any of its constituents (Ex.: all the way in the sentence “he ran all the way”) 0
adjective exocentric Focused or centered on something outside of itself. 0
adjective exocentric (linguistics, of a phrase or compound) Not having the same part of speech as any of its constituent words. 0

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Parts of speech for Exocentric

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

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exocentric popularity

This term is known only to a narrow circle of people with rare knowledge. Only 7% of English native speakers know the meaning of this word.

According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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