(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.

Describes a person who suffers from word blindness or alexia.

(euphemistic) The word motherfucker, regarded as a vulgar or taboo word.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see word, play.

(idiomatic) The rumour or news going around.

(idiomatic, often preceded by the and followed by in) The finest, highest, or ultimate representative of some class of objects.

A word that is contained in a kangaroo word.

A word that contains letters of another word, in order, with the same meaning.

(mathematics, combinatorics) A string consisting of n X's and n Y's such that no initial segment of the string has more Y's than X's.