The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word NOUNS
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More clues leading to the result NOUNS
- Mind introducing new terms
- Poles picked up sound contents in parts of speech
- Sisters gather round for parts of speech
- Intelligence to grasp new words
- Mild old-fashioned oath, as nothing in convent?
- Words from religious women conveying love
- 1ac ‘Unison’ representative from Islington’s forgotten parts of speech
- Nothing in sisters' parts of speech
- Words showing intelligence — any number thrown in
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The straight part
We know that "parts of speech" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case parts of speech = nouns.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does NOUNS mean?
NOUNS noun- (grammar, narrow sense) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
- (grammar, now rare, broad sense) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.
- To convert a word to a noun.