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LEXICAL MEANING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lexical meaning mean?
• LEXICAL MEANING (noun)
The noun LEXICAL MEANING has 1 sense:
1. the meaning of a content word that depends on the nonlinguistic concepts it is used to express
Familiarity information: LEXICAL MEANING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The meaning of a content word that depends on the nonlinguistic concepts it is used to express
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("lexical meaning" is a kind of...):
import; meaning; significance; signification (the message that is intended or expressed or signified)
Holonyms ("lexical meaning" is a part of...):
content word; open-class word (a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned)
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