expression:

• Not a word to anyone; Mum's the word - four character idiom

noun:

• word of great value - four character idiom

noun:

• word organized storage - IT term

noun:

• auxiliary inflecting word; in Japanese, auxiliary verbs and adjectives - Linguistics term

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to transmit by word of mouth

noun:

• miswriting a word; using the wrong kanji to write a word - four character idiom ➜ 魯魚の誤り【ろぎょのあやまり】

noun:

• four-letter word (esp. in English) ➜ 四文字言葉

noun:

• word root (the smallest portion of a larger word that holds meaning)

expression:

• in a word; to put it briefly; to make a long story short ➜ 早く言えば

expression:

• Word of God; God's Word; sword of the Spirit
• Logos (i.e. the Trinity incarnate in Jesus Christ) ➜ ロゴス

expression:

• one's word is worth 1,000 pieces of gold; a promise should be kept at all cost - four character idiom

noun:

• number of dialectal versions of a word

noun:

• end of a word; suffix

noun:

• uninflected word - Linguistics term

noun:

• word to soften awkward topics (esp. refusal in business conversation, e.g. "I am afraid that ...") - e.g. 申し訳ありませんが、あいにく - obscure term - From English "cushion word"

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put in a word for; to second; to support

noun:

• seasonal word (in haiku) ➜ 季語
• seasonal topic (in haiku); seasonal word used as a theme (at a haiku gathering)

noun:

• adjunct word - Linguistics term

expression:

• in a word; to put it briefly; to make a long story short ➜ 手っ取り早く言えば

noun:

• word form used in literary language

noun:

• unregistered word - Linguistics term

noun:

• borrowed word; loanword; loan word

noun:

• conjugated word - Linguistics term

noun:

• appropriate word; apt word or expression; mot juste

noun:

• Western word or sentence
• word created by translating components of a Western word