part of speech


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
part of speech
noun a category to which a word is assigned in accordance with its syntactic functions, e.g. noun, pronoun, adjective, determiner, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
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