Morpheme

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A meaningful linguistic unit consisting of a word, such as man, or a word element, such as -ed in walked, that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts.
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  • n. The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable".
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
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  • n. minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    language unit    linguistic unit   
    Cross Reference
    word    toneme    lexeme    listeme    grapheme   
    Hyponym
    termination    free morpheme    bound morpheme    bound form    allomorph   
    Form
    morphemic   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    serial/loop    does    retry    reticulocyte    sugarplum   
     
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