Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English homepage

generative

 adjective
     
gen‧e‧ra‧tive formal
1 able to produce something:
the generative power of the life force
2

generative grammar/linguistics/phonology

the description of a language using rules that produce all the possible correct sentences of the language
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

Dictionary pictures of the day
Do you know what each of these is called?
What is the word for picture 1? What is the word for picture 2? What is the word for picture 3? What is the word for picture 4?
Click on any of the pictures above to find out what it is called.

Explore our topic dictionary

Browse the dictionary