Anaphor

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  anaphor \anaphor\ n.
     A word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the
     referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent.
     [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  anaphor
       n : a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the
           referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent