This article provides information on the specific features of meaning commonality of compound words and word combinations in the uzbek and english languages. It is emphasised that word combinations have gradually turned into compound words as a result of certain semantic changes in their meaning in all languages of the world. And this compound word was used to name and indicate something or an event. Two (or more) words in the composition named a new subject while keeping their meaning (the meaning changed completely in cases of connotation).