compound noun
noun[C]
languagespecializeduk/ˌkɒm.paʊnd ˈnaʊn/us/ˌkɑːm.paʊnd ˈnaʊn/anounthat is made up of two or more different words, forexample, "cakeshop", "Frenchfries", "high-flyer", or "schoolteacher":
复合名词Theglossaryshouldincludecompoundnounslike "nuclearchemistry" or "lawofequivalentproportions".术语表应包括 "核化学 "或 "等比例法 "等复合名词。
- Compoundnouns, likesnowflake,containahead(-flake) and amodifyingelement(snow- ).
- Byavoidingthe need for apreposition,compoundnounscanhelpyou write moreconcisely: "runningshoes"insteadof "shoesforrunning".
- InRomancelanguages,compoundnounsare used much lessfrequentlythan inGermaniclanguages.
- In thispapershediscussesstressincompoundnouns.
Linguistics: morphology & parts of words
- -athon
- -ative
- -ville
- agglutinate
- agglutinative
- analytic
- combining form
- contraction
- derivative
- ism
- libfix
- monomorphemic
- morphological
- morphology
- multisyllabic
- suffix
- there's
- trigraph
- trisyllabic
- trisyllable