英和和英

語源

From multi- +‎ word.

形容詞

multi-word (not comparable)

1. Consisting of more than one word.

   Synonym: multiworded

   • 2004, John A. Hawkins, Efficiency and Complexity in Grammars‎:

     The single-word/multi-word distinction involves what is most plausibly a difference in terminal elements among items of the same category type (e.g. adjective phrases).

   • 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes‎, page 297:

     The verb categories included two-word multi-word verbs, though terms of more than two words were placed in the phrase category.

使用する際の注意点

• The hyphenated form is much more common in the British corpus while the unhyphenated form in the American one.

反意語

• one-word
• single-word

参照

Further reading

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “multi-”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.