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morpheme
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun morpheme has 1 sense
- morpheme(n = noun.communication) Array - minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units; Array is a kind of language unit, linguistic unit
has particulars: allomorph, free form, free morpheme, bound form, bound morpheme, classifier, ending, termination
Derived form adjective morphemic1
CIDE DICTIONARY
morpheme, n.
The smallest unit of meaning of a language, which cannot be divided into smaller parts carrying meaning; it is usually smaller than a single wordform, such as the -ed morpheme of verbs in the past tense or the -s morpheme of nouns in the plural form. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
morpheme, n. Linguistics 1 a morphological element considered in respect of its functional relations in a linguistic system.
2 a meaningful morphological unit of a language that cannot be further divided (e.g. in, come, -ing, forming incoming).
2 a meaningful morphological unit of a language that cannot be further divided (e.g. in, come, -ing, forming incoming).
Derivative
morphemic adj. morphemically adv.
Etymology
F morph{egrave}me f. Gk morphe form, after PHONEME
THESAURUS
morpheme
IC analysis, accidence, affix, affixation, allomorph, bound morpheme, conjugation, cutting, declension, derivation, difference of form, enclitic, form, formative, free form, glosseme, icon, immediate constituent analysis, infix, infixation, inflection, lexeme, lexical form, morph, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphology, morphophonemics, paradigm, phrase, prefix, prefixation, proclitic, radical, root, semasiological unit, sememe, sign, signifiant, significant, stem, suffix, suffixation, symbol, term, theme, token, type, word, word-formation
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