ALL meanings of endocentric
- noun endocentric Denoting or being a construction in which the whole has the same syntactic function as the head, for example big black dogs. 1
- adjective endocentric (of a construction) fulfilling the grammatical role of one of its constituents; as in three blind mice, where the whole noun phrase fulfils the same role as its head noun mice 0
- adjective endocentric designating or of a construction which in its totality has the same syntactic function as one or more of its constituents (Ex.: the phrase ham and eggs has the same syntactic function as ham or eggs) 0