syntactic category

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Noun syntactic category has 1 sense

grammatical category, syntactic category - (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
--₁ is a kind of class, category, family
--₁ has particulars:
case, grammatical case; part of speech, form class, word class; number; person; gender, grammatical gender; tense; semantic role, participant role