How to pronounce “attributive noun”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (grammar) Synonym of noun adjunct (“a noun that modifies another noun attributively”).
• (grammar, when referring to a language other than English) A noun denoting bearer of a quality or an attribute of a subject, in reference to the lexical morpheme from which it is derived.

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Similar Sounds

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