word - a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"

determinative, determiner - one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases

preposition - a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word

pronoun - a function word that is used in place of a noun or noun phrase

conjunctive, connective, conjunction - an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences

particle - a function word that can be used in English to form phrasal verbs

grammatical meaning - the meaning of a word that depends on its role in a sentence; varies with inflectional form