BOUND MORPHEME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bound morpheme mean? 

• BOUND MORPHEME (noun)
  The noun BOUND MORPHEME has 1 sense:

1. a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns

  Familiarity information: BOUND MORPHEME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOUND MORPHEME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

bound form; bound morpheme

Hypernyms ("bound morpheme" is a kind of...):

morpheme (minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bound morpheme"):

combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)

affix (a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form)