MORPHEME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does morpheme mean? 

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

1. minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORPHEME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

language unit; linguistic unit (one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed)

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

allomorph (a variant phonological representation of a 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))

Derivation:

morphemic (of or relating to morphemes)