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1. A, n. View full entry 1735
...Grammar. In form a or (occas.) A. adjective;active (of a verb). Now rare....
2. AAVE in A, n. View full entry 1993
...African-American Vernacular English; cf. BEVB....
3. abessive, adj. and n. View full entry 1854
...Designating, being in, or relating to a case in certain Finno-Ugric languages, esp. Finnish, which expresses the absence of something....
4. abessive, adj. and n. View full entry 1869
...The abessive case; a word, form, etc., in the abessive case....
5. abjad, n. View full entry 1990
...Linguistics. Any of various writing systems having symbols for consonants only; a consonantal alphabet....
6. ablatival, adj. View full entry 1653
...Of or relating to the ablative case....
7. ablative, adj. and n. View full entry c1400
...Grammar. Designating, being in, or relating to a case of nouns and pronouns, and of words in grammatical agreement with them, in Latin and certain other Indo-European languages, the central function...
8. ablative, adj. and n. View full entry c1400
...A word, form, etc., in the ablative case. With the: the ablative case....
9. ablative absolute in ablative, adj. and n. View full entry 1631
...(in Latin) an ablative case of a noun or pronoun with a participle (expressed or implied) in concord, grammatically independent of the main clause, and expressing the time, occasion, or circumstance of...
10. ablatively, adv. View full entry 1653
...Grammar. In the ablative case; as an ablative....
11. ablaut, n. View full entry 1849
...The morphological variation of a root vowel in Germanic and other Indo-European languages; = gradation11....
12. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry c1400
...Of a clause, construction, case, etc.: not syntactically dependent on another part of the sentence. Of a word: used without a (customary) syntactic dependant; spec.(of a transitive verb) used without...
13. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry 1786
...Of a word, form, or case: morphologically unmarked; uninflected....
14. absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry 1709
...Grammar. An absolute word, clause, or construction. Cf. sense A. 1....
15. absolute state in absolute, adj. (and adv.) and n. View full entry 1752
...the standard form or condition of a word when not in the construct state (construct stateconstruct2)....
16. absolutely, adv. and int. View full entry c1525
...Chiefly Grammar. Without any logical qualification or syntactic dependent; in an absolute construction....
17. absolutive, n. and adj. View full entry 1863
... The absolute form of a word (see absolute1)....
18. absolutive, n. and adj. View full entry 1914
...Of, relating to, or designating the absolute form of a word....
19. absorption, n. View full entry 1874
...The assimilation of immigrants to a country; spec. (in Israel) integration of Jewish immigrants as an organized process involving provision of accommodation and other services upon arrival, cultural and linguistic...
20. accent, n. View full entry ?1553
...literary. A significant tone or sound, esp. in speech; a spoken word. †Also in pl.: a language, speech (obs.)....
