Usage of "compound word"

russo

сложные слова

português

composição por justaposição

espanhol

composición

catalão

composició

Lexeme that consists of more than one stem.

monomorphemic word

composição por justaposição

Sinônimos

Examples for "compound"

compound
compound lexeme

Examples for "compound"

We have only 'compound', 'context', 'footfall', and a few other similar ones. 
 The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within 

Within days, tanks were seen making their way towards the presidential compound. 
 The South African 

Price inflation was 2 per cent per annum compound over survey period. 
 The Irish Times 

There was work to be done outside the wights' compound, as well. 
 Library of Souls 

Second, the actual structure of the compound is difficult to hold together. 
 Wired 

Uso de compound word em inglês

It is all found in one compound word, and that word is 
 Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary / Col... 

Here, however, we find it in the compound word par-tanna = many. 
 Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the ... 

It's used to make a compound word, such as: cinder-block walls. 
 The new yorker 

We spell it that way because it is a compound word made from three parts. 
 For Honor We Stand 

Collectively, the compound word signifies that which ties a man to his spirit or god. 
 Five Years of Theosophy 

Not the machines themselves, but the compound word. 
 61 hours 

The Burdwan translator wrongly takes deva-ganah as a compound word and makes a mess of the meaning. 
 The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13... 

Jicks answered in one untranslatable compound word: 
 Poor Miss Finch 

This compound word meant literally, myrrh-scented, perfumed. 
 The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus 

Mastige is another compound word mixing prestige and mass and means when cheap products are marketed as luxurious products. 
 Radio NZ 

Sci-Fi is a compound word. 
 Wired 

The word mamacona signified "matron"; mama, the first half of this compound word, as already noticed, meaning "mother." 
 History of the Conquest of Peru / With a Preliminary View of the... 

These scattered tribes come, one and all, under the title of Nyam-Nyams, and this compound word is only a sort of nickname. 
 Five Weeks in a Balloon / Or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa... 

I may as well tell you at once I hate stuck-uppedness (this was a compound word worthy of a young schoolmaster). 
 A Dog with a Bad Name 

The spondee, in a compound word, sometimes gives a favourable emphasis; but to my taste, rarely, when it is formed of a double epithet. 
 Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey 

The Hyphen (-) is used between syllables and between the parts of a compound word; as, No-ble, col-o-ny, and text- book, easy-chair. 
 McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader 