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mor·pheme
(môr′fēm′)n.
A meaningful linguistic unit that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts. The word man and the suffix -ed (as in walked) are morphemes.
[French morphème, blend of Greek morphē, form and French phonème, phoneme; see phoneme.]
mor·phem′ic adj.
mor·phem′i·cal·ly adv.
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morpheme
(ˈmɔːfiːm)n
(Linguistics) linguistics a speech element having a meaning or grammatical function that cannot be subdivided into further such elements
[C20: from French, from Greek morphē form, coined on the model of phoneme; see -eme]
morˈphemic adj
morˈphemically adv
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mor•pheme
(ˈmɔr fim)n.
any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def. 2).
mor•phe′mic, adj.
mor•phe′mi•cal•ly, adv.
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morpheme
A word or part of a word that cannot be further divided into smaller elements.
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Noun | 1. | morpheme - minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units language unit, linguistic unit - one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed allomorph - a variant phonological representation of a morpheme; "the final sounds of `bets' and `beds' and `horses' and `oxen' are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme" free form, free morpheme - a morpheme that can occur alone bound form, bound morpheme - a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns classifier - a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs ending, termination - the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending" |
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Translations
морфема
morfém
morfeemi
morfem
morféma
morfemaморфема
morfem
морфема
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morpheme
n → Morphem nt
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