Definition of grammar

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Grammar (n.) A treatise on the principles of language; a book containing the principles and rules for correctness in speaking or writing.

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School :: School (n.) A place of primary instruction; an establishment for the instruction of children; as, a primary school; a common school; a grammar school..
Scholium :: Scholium (n.) A marginal annotation; an explanatory remark or comment; specifically, an explanatory comment on the text of a classic author by an early grammarian..
Latin :: Latin (a.) Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins; as, a Latin grammar; a Latin composition or idiom..
Grammar :: Grammar (v. i.) To discourse according to the rules of grammar; to use grammar.
Orthography :: Orthography (n.) The part of grammar which treats of the letters, and of the art of spelling words correctly..
Coronis :: Coronis (n.) In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable..
Grammarian :: Grammarian (n.) One who writes on, or teaches, grammar..
Grammar :: Grammar (n.) A treatise on the principles of language; a book containing the principles and rules for correctness in speaking or writing.
Example :: Example (n.) An instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept, especially a problem to be solved, or a case to be determined, as an exercise in the application of the rules of any study or branch of science; as, in trigonometry and grammar, the principles and rules are illustrated by examples..
Grammaticaster :: Grammaticaster (n.) A petty grammarian; a grammatical pedant or pretender.
Etymology :: Etymology (n.) That part of grammar which relates to the changes in the form of the words in a language; inflection.
False :: False (superl.) Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as, a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in grammar..
Accidence :: Accidence (n.) The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar..
Grammar :: Grammar (n.) treatise on the elements or principles of any science; as, a grammar of geography..
Primitive :: Primitive (a.) Original; primary; radical; not derived; as, primitive verb in grammar..
Epicene :: Epicene (a. & n.) Common to both sexes; -- a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as boy^s, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites..
Grammarianism :: Grammarianism (n.) The principles, practices, or peculiarities of grammarians..
Prosody :: Prosody (n.) That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition..
Grammarless :: Grammarless (a.) Without grammar.
Accusatively :: Accusatively (adv.) In relation to the accusative case in grammar.
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