Definition of morpheme Morpheme
mor•pheme
We found 4 definitions of morpheme from 4 different sources.
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What does morpheme mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: morphemes |
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| 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 | ||
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Wiktionary 
- morpheme (Noun)
The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable".
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morpheme
The smallest lingual unit that carries a semantic interpretation, usually a distinctive collocation of phonemes having no smaller meaningful members.
Part of speech
🔤- morpheme, noun, singular of morphemes.
