- Part of speech - Promise - Sentence component - Unit of language - The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or
vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered
by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single
component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a
sentence; a term; a vocable. - Hence, the written or printed character, or combination of
characters, expressing such a term; as, the words on a page. - Talk; discourse; speech; language.