"grammar" Definition

Definitions for the word "grammar" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use aud application of the rules of a language, in speaking or writing.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The art of speaking or writing with correctness or according to established usage; speech considered with regard to the rules of a grammar.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
A treatise on the principles of language; a book containing the principles and rules for correctness in speaking or writing.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
treatise on the elements or principles of any science; as, a grammar of geography.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. i.
To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
1 the study or rules of a language''s inflections or other means of showing the relation between words. 2 observance or application of the rules of grammar (bad grammar). 3 book on grammar. [greek gramma letter]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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