Definition of Word

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Definition of Word

Word

The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable.

Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page.

Talk; discourse; speech; language.

Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular.

Signal; order; command; direction.

Language considered as implying the faith or authority of the person who utters it; statement; affirmation; declaration; promise.

Verbal contention; dispute.

A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence.

To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.

To express in words; to phrase.

To ply with words; also, to cause to be by the use of a word or words.

To flatter with words; to cajole.

Related Definitions:

Account, Affirmation, Also, An, And, Argue, Articulate, As, Authority, Be, Brief, By, Cajole, Cause, Character, Clause, Combination, Command, Communication, Component, Conception, Considered, Constituent, Contention, Custom, Declaration, Direction, Discourse, Discussion, Dispute, Express, Expressing, Expression, Faith, Flatter, Hence, Human, Idea, Ideas, Implying, In, Information, It, Language, Message, Observation, Of, On, Only, Or, Order, Page, Part, Person, Phrase, Ply, Printed, Promise, Remark, Sentence, Short, Sign, Signal, Single, Singular, Sound, Speech, Spoken, Statement, Such, Talk, Term, The, Tidings, To, Use, Used, Uttered, Verbal, Vocable, Vocal, Voice, Who, With, Word, Written

Word Quotations

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
Thomas Jefferson

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Mark Twain

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark Twain

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Mark Twain

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.
Mark Twain

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
Warren Buffett

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis

Word Translations

word in Afrikaans is woord
word in Danish is ord
word in Dutch is woord, bewoording
word in Finnish is sana
word in French is mot
word in German is Vokabel, Datenwort, Wort, Wort, formulieren
word in Latin is verbum
word in Norwegian is ord
word in Portuguese is palavra
word in Spanish is palabra, formular
word in Swedish is glosa, ord

Quotes