noun [U]
1 (linguistics) the way that words and phrases are put together to form sentences in a language; the rules of grammar for this
compareMORPHOLOGY
2 (computing) the rules that state how words and phrases must be used in a computer language:
The instructions were not carried out because of a syntax error.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for syntax is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does syntax appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — syntax appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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