(derogatory, dated) A word that negates or removes the meaning of the word it qualifies. / (derogatory) A word used to hedge a statement, for example to make it vague, equivocal, or misleading.

To use weasel words.

(idiomatic) The rumour or news going around.

Describes a person who suffers from word blindness or alexia.

Synonym of alexia

(education, US) A word which a student is expected to learn; a word included in a test of one's general vocabulary or of subject-specific terminology

The number of words in a passage, a text, a speech, a corpus, etc.

(linguistics, lexicography) A word that is not a function word, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and most adverbs.

Consisting of more than one word.

Consisting of a single word.