morpheme (redirected from Morphemes)

mor·pheme  (môrfm)

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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[French morphème, blend of Greek morph, form and French phonème, phoneme; see phoneme.]

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mor·phemic adj.

mor·phemi·cal·ly adv.

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morpheme

Noun

Linguistics a speech element having a meaning or grammatical function that cannot be subdivided into further such elements

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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 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"