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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

emp′ty word′,

Linguistics(esp. in Chinese grammar) a word or morpheme that has no lexical meaning and that functions as a grammatical link or marker, rather than as a contentive. Cf. full word, function word.

1890–95

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