> (Also, if you wanna go even more meta, there isn't even a widely agreed upon definition for what a word even is in linguistics!) To be even more precise, the

> (Also, if you wanna go even more meta, there isn't even a widely agreed upon definition for what a word even is in linguistics!) To be even more precise, there are several competing definitions of what "word" should mean that don't always agree. E.g. if you go by the criterion "word" = lexeme (dictionary unit), then something like "kick the bucket" would be a "word".