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n. (plural of compound word English)
Usage examples of "compound words".
Accent is generally on the penultimate syllable, but compound words and place names are often an exception to this rule.
Accent is generally on the penultimate syllable, but compound words and place names are often exceptions to this rule.
Although it has so far been found difficult, if not impossible, to translate the compound words formed from the Maya alphabet, yet we can go far enough to see that they used the system of simpler sounds for the whole hieroglyph to which we have referred.
My new language universe was comprised of four monosyllables, three compound words, and two baby-talk repetitions.
Newspeak words were divided into three distinct classes, known as the A vocabulary, the B vocabulary (also called compound words), and the C vocabulary.
There are many made-up and compound words in the story -- any word that was questionable was looked up in the DT.
As for English, it occurs in compound words or for the use of a specialized prefix or suffix, as well as showing correct syllabic separation when the hyphenated term is pronounced as one word.