'morpheme' definitions:
Definition of 'morpheme'
(from WordNet)
noun
Minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units
Definition of 'morpheme'
From: GCIDE
- morpheme \mor"pheme\ (m[^o]r"f[=e]m), n. (Linguistics) The smallest unit of meaning of a language, which cannot be divided into smaller parts carrying meaning; it is usually smaller than a single wordform, such as the -ed morpheme of verbs in the past tense or the -s morpheme of nouns in the plural form. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'morpheme'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accidence,
- affix,
- affixation,
- allomorph,
- bound morpheme,
- conjugation,
- cutting,
- declension,
- derivation,
- difference of form,
- enclitic,
- form,
- formative,
- free form,
- glosseme,
- IC analysis,
- icon,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- infix,
- infixation,
- inflection,
- lexeme,
- lexical form,
- morph,
- morphemic analysis,
- morphemics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- paradigm,
- phrase,
- prefix,
- prefixation,
- proclitic,
- radical,
- root,
- semasiological unit,
- sememe,
- sign,
- signifiant,
- significant,
- stem,
- suffix,
- suffixation,
- symbol,
- term,
- theme,
- token,
- type,
- word,
- word-formation