Definition: In linguistics, a by-word is a word that has no direct meaning or function. In other words, it does not carry any grammatical value and is not used in a sentence as a part of a verb or clause. Bywords are often considered to be "empty" or "abstract" words, since they do not have any specific meaning beyond their own existence. For example: - The dog barked loudly. - I am going to the store. In this case, "b