closed compound

English

Noun

Examples
dishcloth keyboard pancake waterproof

closed compound (plural closed compounds)

1. (grammar) A compound word without spaces in it.

Synonyms

• solid compound

Hypernyms

• compound
• compound word

Coordinate terms

• open compound
• hyphenated 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.