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Keywords:  downtrodden, barefoot, cowboy, word, hyphen
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A word made up of two smaller words—for example, baseball.
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1,2,3 A combination of two or more words that function as a single unit of meaning (e.g., bookkeeper or downtrodden).
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a word made by putting two or more words together (cowboy)
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