Meaning Of The Word Function word

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What's The Definition Of Function word?

function word in American English
a word, as an article or conjunction, having little or no lexical meaning but used to show syntactic relation
noun: a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from cont

function word in British English
noun: a word, such as the, with a particular grammatical role but little identifiable meaning

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