# treebank

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈtɹiː.bæŋk/

## Definitions
1. A database (corpus) of sentences which are annotated with syntactic information, often in the form of a tree.

## Etymology
From tree + bank, coined by British linguist Geoffrey Leech in analogy with seed bank, blood bank, etc.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/treebank