closed compound

English

Noun

Examples
dishcloth keyboard pancake waterproof

closed compound (plural closed compounds)

(grammar) A compound word without spaces in it.

Synonyms

solid compound

Hypernyms

Coordinate terms

open compound

Translations

grammar: compound without spaces

Finnish: (yhteenkirjoitettu) yhdyssana (in Finnish, but not in English, all compounds are written without spaces; see open compound)
Hungarian: egybeírt összetétel

References

“closed compound”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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