adjective
LinguisticsDenoting or being a construction in which the whole has the same syntactic function as the head, for example big black dogs.
Contrasted with exocentric‘Since the vast majority of English compounds are endocentric.’- ‘A useful distinction to be made is that between endocentric and exocentric compounds, the former showing a semantic head, which is not present in the latter.’
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