Consisting of more than one word.

(linguistics) A word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, such as prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, or conjunctions.

(education) A word that a learner recognizes, or is expected to recognize, on sight.

Any word that has a magical effect when uttered. / (in teaching polite behaviour to children) One of the words please, thank you, or hello.

(psychiatry) A nonsensical assemblage of words, typical of schizophrenia, Wernicke's aphasia, and some other mental disorders. / Meaningless text generated by a computer.

plural of word problem

A mathematics question that states verbally what is usually expressed with symbols or diagrams.

(linguistics) locative word

plural of word search

(idiomatic) To notify via a delivered message.