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.

Talk; discourse; speech; language.

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

The smallest unit of grammar that can stand alone as a complete utterance, separated by spaces in written language and potentially by pauses in speech.

Something that is said; a meaningful unit of spoken language that can stand alone and is not divisible into similar units; also a written or printed symbol that represents a spoken word and is usually set off by spaces on either side; one of the units of speech or writing that is the smallest isolable meaningful element of the language, although linguists would analyse these further into morphemes.

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"

a compound if at least two of its component morphemes are content morphemes

a group of Morphemes

a noun if it functions as a noun in a sentence

an utterance that you use to communicate with one another

a unit of speech from which expressions are made

a verb, noun, adjective or other part of speech, depending on its job or function

A unique utterance understood by the recognizer.

A word is a unit of language that carries meaning and consists of one or more morphemes which are linked more or less tightly together, and has a phonetical value. Typically a word will consist of a root or stem and zero or more affixes. Words can be combined to create phrases, clauses, and sentences.