82 examples of COMPOUND words

Some Examples of compound words are lipstick, briefcase, face mask, letter opener, singer-songwriter, dishwasher... At unProfesor we give you more examples with videos of our teachers.

The word It is a set of articulated sounds that is associated with a meaning. These words are the ones we use to speak and write, in addition to being the most important unit in our language and the figure that allows a sender and a receiver to communicate. Up to this point everything is very easy; However, our language is a little more complex and that is why there are different types of words, such as compound words.

In this lesson from a TEACHER, we are going to discover you examples of compound words and we are going to discover the definition so that you can understand this concept well. Let's go there!

The compound words are those that have gone through the morphological process of composition, that is, they arise from the union of two roots or lexemes, with the purpose of forming a new semantic and syntactic unit.

The composition of words is a very common process in our language and is used especially when we need create new words that correspond to the changing reality we live in.

In the process, any two words are taken and joined together to start working with a new unit in itself, which is governed by the usual rules of accentuation and spelling. In some cases, the two words that make up the new term are separated with a hyphen. When this occurs, the two words will be written the same as if they were separated.

The most common thing is that they are two lexemes, although there are cases in which three or more words are merged.

Let's put some on you examples of compound words so you can see how they are formed and try to discover their meaning, from the two simple words that make it up:

1. Abreboca (open + mouth).
2. Bottle opener (open + bottles).
3. Can opener (open + cans)
4. Letter opener (open + letters).
5. Car opener (open + cars).
6. Party pooper (water + party).
7. Can opener (open + can).
8. Abrejos (open + eyes).
9. Downcast (wings + fall).
10. Collar collars (raise + collar).
11. Amansaburros (tame + donkeys).
12. Valet parking (park + cars).
13. Buscavidas (search + lives).
14. Foot warmer (warm + feet).
15. Singer-songwriter (Sing + author).
16. Cariampollar (face + blister).
17. Carnivore (meat + voro, which devours).
18. Nutcracker (cracker + nuts).
19. Curmudgeon (cascar + rage).
20. Firewall (cut + fire).
21. Penknife (cut + feathers)
22. Roadrunner (running + roads).
23. Bloodsucker (suck + blood).
24. Headcover (cover + head).
25. Bedspread (cover + bed).
26. Dropper (count + drops).
27. Odometer (count + kilometers).
28. Step counter (count + steps).
29. Lap counter (count + laps).
30. Destripacuentos (gut + stories).
31. Duermevela (sleep + candle).
32. Scarecrow (scare + birds).
33. Sunflower (spin + sun).
34. Wardrobe (storage + clothes).
35. Mudguards (save + mudguards).
36. Ranger (save + forests).
37. Hispanohablante (Hispanic + speak).
38. Flamethrower (launcher + flames).
39. Carwash (wash + cars).
40. Dishwasher (wash + dishes)
41. Shoe shine (clean + boots).
42. Maniatar (hands + tie).
43. Croaker (kill + healthy).
44. Fly swatter (kill + flies).
45. Rat killer (kill + rats).
46. Mother-in-laws (kill + mothers-in-law).
47. Metepatas (put + legs).
48. Toothpicks (peel + teeth).
49. Forklift (ride + loads).
50. Windshield (stop + breeze).
51. Bumpers (stop + crashes).
52. Parachute (stop + falls).
53. Umbrella (stop + water).
54. Lightning rod (stop + lightning).
55. Handrail (pass + hand).
56. Pastime (spend + time).
57. Pelagatos (peel + cats).
58. Lipstick (paint + lips).
59. Paperweight (step on + papers).
60. Aircraft carrier (carry + planes).
61. Portfolios (carry + folios).
62. Nail polish remover (remove + nail polish).
63. Stain remover (remove + stains).
64. Snowplow (remove + snow).
65. Skyscraper (scratch + skies).
66. Puzzle (break + head).
67. Heartbreaker (break + hearts).
68. Icebreaker (break + ice).
69. Breakwater (break + waves).
70. know-it-all (know + everything).
71. Corkscrew (take out + corks).
72. Tooth remover (remove + teeth).
73. Pencil sharpener (take out + sharpen).
74. Grasshopper (jump + mountains).
75. Trivet (save + tablecloths).
76. Screensaver (save + screens).
77. Lifesaver (save + lives).
78. Skylight (swallow + light).
79. Corkscrew (throw + mailbox).
80. Record player (play + records).
81. Tongue twister (lock + tongue).
82. Globetrotter (jog + worlds).

Do you want to go a little further? Well let's leave you with some examples of compound words in sentences that contain a compound word, so you can see how they work within their context. We have indicated the compound word in bold so that it is easier for you to identify it:

• I would love it if they let me play games at work. video game when I have nothing to do.
• You have to have a lot of patience to do that. puzzle.
• Is falling sleet, we will not go out on an excursion until the weather improves.
• It is better to go to the bank noon, it is always empty.
• I love New York, it's full of skyscraper.
• We gave him the welcome to my brother after a year outside the country.
• My uncle has one motorcycle red.
• I hate taking care of them chores from my house on Saturday mornings.
• We will have to call the technician because the dishwasher.
• If the building had not had lightning rod, a tragedy could have occurred.
• In that cartoon the protagonist is a centipede.
• You must take a taxi when you arrive, the airport It is on the outskirts of the city.

Here we leave you the compound word rules so you understand how they are formed.

To finish, we are going to leave you with a very simple exercise so that you can practice the theory that we have explained to you in the previous sections. The only thing you will have to do is form a compound word from the two simple words that we give you:

• Double and Step:
• Ball and Basket:
• Line and Straight:
• Clean and Boots:
• Hair and Red:
• Laugh and Do:

In this section you can find the solutions the previous exercise of compound words. How many had you composed correctly? Had you written them correctly?

• Double and Paso: Pasodoble
• Ball and Basket: Basketball
• Line and Straight: Rectilinear
• Clean and Boots: Shoe Shine
• Hair and Red: Redhead
• Laugh and Do: Laughing stock

We hope this lesson has helped you understand a little better. compound words and how they are formed. If you want to continue delving a little deeper into this topic or a similar one in the Spanish language, do not hesitate to consult our grammar and linguistics section.