Words describing themselvesSourced
Not region-specific · English meaning
English is itself an English word
An autological word has the property it names: English is English, and word is a word. By contrast, monosyllabic has more than one syllable despite naming a one-syllable property. The distinction asks whether a word fits its own description.
Sometimes the label is also an example of the label.
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