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lex·eme

 (lĕk′sēm′)
n.
The fundamental unit of the lexicon of a language. Find, finds, found, and finding are forms of the English lexeme find.

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lexeme

(ˈlɛksiːm)
n
(Linguistics) linguistics a minimal meaningful unit of language, the meaning of which cannot be understood from that of its component morphemes. Take off (in the senses to mimic, to become airborne, etc) is a lexeme, as well as the independent morphemes take and off
[C20: from lex(icon) + -eme]
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lex•eme

(ˈlɛk sim)

n.
a minimal lexical unit in a language, as a word or idiomatic phrase, esp. an abstract form underlying any inflected forms.
[1935–40; lex (ical) or lex (icon) + -eme]
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lexeme

A fundamental meaningful unit of a language.
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Noun1.lexeme - a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go'
language unit, linguistic unit - one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed
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Let's note, however, that in a sense the choice of the lexeme leaving does not belong to the reporter.
2016: 153) Language and Lexeme Meaning Diminutive Example reference suffix a.
Inflected word-forms are considered to be more informative than sub-word units about the inflexional patterns exhibited by a lexeme. Informative patterns exist only between two or more related forms (whether they belong to the lexeme's paradigm, its wider morphological family or to the lexical neigh-bourhood).
(11) Not that every form or lexeme in the medieval manuscripts should be naively accepted as ancient, but the point remains.
This was automated for all words or stems where only one possible apposite lexeme would be converted.
OFTEN our officials use the lexeme of 'successful' after every visit of the head of government or state to a foreign country yet the first foreign visit paid by Prime Minister Imran Khan to Saudi Arabia was highly successful in terms of deepening the economic partnership between the two countries.
The first few simple (person, tree) and compound (wood, forest) images seem straightforward enough, but very soon image and lexeme correspond less and the pictures are more a mnemonic for the embedded character.
Premierement, un mot ou un lexeme peut posseder plusieurs significations (polysemie).
The key feature of the morphosemantic field is that each derived form is related to an etymon (the etymologically basic lexeme, root or base lexeme) in a different way.