Content word

/kˈɒntɛnt wˈɜːd/

/kˈɑːntɛnt wˈɜːd/

Content word

a word that carries semantic meaning and contributes to the overall content and understanding of a sentence, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs

Examples

1. Google and search terms are all based on these content words.

2. Well, it turns out that they're different kinds of classes of words that look at this distinction, and one of them is if you're looking at what people are writing about, you look at what are called content words.

3. And 'content words and phrases', these tell you the topics to be focused on.