grammatical meaning

noun

1. the meaning of an inflectional morpheme or of some other syntactic device, as word order.

grammatical meaning

noun

1. the meaning of a word by reference to its function within a sentence rather than to a world outside the sentence Compare lexical meaning function word

Word History and Origins

Origin of grammatical meaning¹

First recorded in 1760–70

Example Sentences

But this is not all; when I had examined this passage attentively, I found it also to be lacking in grammatical meaning.

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Towards that end, discrimination of the usual or grammatical meaning of words was indispensable.

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The mere grammatical meaning of the word 'martyr' breaks into pieces at a blow the whole notion of the privacy of goodness.

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The barbarous Latin of the Vita is so uncouth and unformed as to convey no certain grammatical meaning.

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