Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word GRAMMAR

GRAMMAR

Definitions of GRAMMAR

A system of rules and principles for speaking and writing a language.
A book describing the rules of grammar of a language.
Actual or presumed prescriptive notions about the correct use of a language.
The basic rules or principles of a field of knowledge or a particular skill.
(uncountable, linguistics) The study of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the use of words in the construction of phrases and sentences (syntax).
(computing theory) A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
(computing theory) A formal system defining a formal language
(British, archaic) A book describing these rules or principles; a textbook.
(UK) A grammar school.
(cellular automata) A set of component patterns, along with the rules for connecting them, which can be combined to form more complex patterns such as large still lifes, oscillators, and spaceships.
(obsolete, intransitive) To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.