construction#1 (n)
grammatical construction (n)
expression#5 (n)

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type n
lex_filenum 10
def a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit
examples I concluded from his awkward constructions that he was a foreigner
Outgoing links
Hypernym constituent, grammatical constituent
Antonym construction → misconstruction
Hyponym adjunct; clause; complement; involution; phrase; predicator
Incoming links
Hypernym adjunct; clause; complement; involution; phrase; predicator
Hyponym constituent, grammatical constituent
Antonym misconstruction → construction

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