Meaning of open compound | Babel Free

Definitions

A compound word with spaces in it, for example, high school, school bus, or science fiction.

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Examples

“Two-word compounds--named open⟳ compounds in Edward N. Teall's Meet⟳ Mr. Hyphen--are in fact very common.”

“Thus such words, to give⟳ only a very few examples, as pismire, baise-mains, favonian, hearstling, happenstance, chanticleer, and open⟳ compounds like⟳ guardhouse lawyer,sidewalk superintendent and slush fund are registered without any kind of status label⟳ ...”

“Further, the language permits open⟳ compounds, as indicated above, so that we might conjecture such spellings as "battlecry, battle-field, battle ground, battle-piece and battlewise."”

“Should the Yiddish noun ris-uf 'start⟳' be written as an open⟳ or a hyphenated compound? The MEYYED gives it as an open⟳ compound (ris uf) in the English- Yiddish ...”

“The examples also exemplify the three forms that compound words take⟳: 1) open⟳ compound (snail mail); 2) hyphenated compound (eagle-eyed); and 3) solid compound (bookworm).”

“A subentry is an open⟳ compound (e.g., express⟳ contract) whose major element is the noun (contract at whose alphabetical place⟳ the subentry is entered.”

“In an open⟳ compound, the component words are separate⟳, with no hyphen (well fed; wagon train⟳).”

“Some compounds are written as space-separated words, which are called open⟳ compounds (e.g. hard drive⟳), while others are written as single words, which are called closed compounds (e.g. wallpaper). In this paper, we shall focus⟳ only on closed compounds because open⟳ compounds do not require⟳ further splitting.”

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