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compound noun
noun[ C ]
language specializeduk /ˌkɒm.paʊnd ˈnaʊn/ us /ˌkɑːm.paʊnd ˈnaʊn/
a noun that is made up of two or more different words, for example, "cake shop", "French fries", "high-flyer", or "schoolteacher": 复合名词
The glossary should include compound nouns like "nuclear chemistry" or "law of equivalent proportions".术语表应包括 "核化学 "或 "等比例法 "等复合名词。
Compound nouns, like snowflake, contain a head (-flake ) and a modifying element (snow- ).
By avoiding the need for a preposition, compound nouns can help you write more concisely: "running shoes" instead of "shoes for running".
In Romance languages, compound nouns are used much less frequently than in Germanic languages.
In this paper she discusses stress in compound nouns.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Linguistics: morphology & parts of words
-athon
affix
affixation
agglutinate
agglutinative
analytic
contraction
ion
ism
libfix
monomorphemic
monosyllabic
morpheme
morphological
suffix
syllabify
synthetic
that'd
that'll
that's
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