📖 Definitions of "Endocentric"
noun
- 1
(grammar) An endocentric compound.
adjective
- 1
Focused or centered within itself, and not on something external.
- 2
(grammar, of a phrase or compound word) fulfilling the same grammatical role as one of its constituents.
"The noun "houseboat" is endocentric because "boat" is also a noun."
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