Definition of bound form Bound form
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What does bound form mean?
WordNet
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| bound form - a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns | ||
| bound morpheme | ||
| morpheme minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units | ||
| combining form a bound form used only in compounds; "`hemato-' is a combining form in words like `hematology'" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- bound form (Noun)
A unit of language that can be only be used as part of a word, not as a word on its own.
