grammar

Meanings

Noun

• A system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language.
• The study of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the use of words in the construction of phrases and sentences (syntax).
• A book describing the rules of grammar of a language.
• A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
• Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.
• A formal system defining a formal language
• The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.
• A textbook.
• A grammar school.

Verb

• To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.

Related

Similar words

• glomery
• morpho-syntax

Narrower meaning words

• context-sensitive grammar
• finite-state grammar
• Turing-complete grammar
• normative grammar

Origin

• From Middle English gramer, gramarye, gramery, from Old French gramaire ("classical learning"), from the unattested *grammāria, an alteration of Latin grammatica, from Ancient Greek γραμματική ("skilled in writing"), from γράμμα, from γράφω, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- ("to carve, scratch"). Displaced native .