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gram⋅mar

   /ˈgræmər/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [gram-er] Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun

1.	the study of the way the sentences of a language are constructed; morphology and syntax.

2.	these features or constructions themselves: English grammar.

3.	an account of these features; a set of rules accounting for these constructions: a grammar of English.

4.	Generative Grammar. a device, as a body of rules, whose output is all of the sentences that are permissible in a given language, while excluding all those that are not permissible.

5.	prescriptive grammar.

6.	knowledge or usage of the preferred or prescribed forms in speaking or writing: She said his grammar was terrible.

7.	the elements of any science, art, or subject.

8.	a book treating such elements.

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Origin:
1325–75; ME gramery < OF gramaire < L gramatica < Gk grammatik (téchnē) grammatical (art); see -ar ²