multi-word
See also: multiword
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Adjective
- Consisting of more than one word.
- 2004, John A. Hawkins, Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars[1]:
- The single-word/multi-word distinction involves what is most plausibly a difference in terminal elements among items of the same category type (e.g. adjective phrases).
- 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes[2], page 297:
- The verb categories included two-word multi-word verbs, though terms of more than two words were placed in the phrase category.
Usage notes
- The hyphenated form is much more common in the British corpus while the solid form in the American one.[1]
Antonyms
Translations
consisting of more than one word
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References
Further reading
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “multi-”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.