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glosseme

glos·seme
G g

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [glos-eem, glaw-seem]
    • /ˈglɒs im, ˈglɔ sim/
    • /ɡlˈɒsiːm/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [glos-eem, glaw-seem]
    • /ˈglɒs im, ˈglɔ sim/

Definitions of glosseme word

  • noun glosseme (in glossematics) an irreducible, invariant form, as a morpheme or tagmeme, that functions as the smallest meaningful unit of linguistic signaling. 1
  • noun glosseme the smallest meaningful unit of a language, such as stress, form, etc 0
  • noun glosseme The smallest irreducible unit of language in the theory of glossematics. 0

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Origin of glosseme

First appearance:

before 1925
One of the 11% newest English words
First recorded in 1925-30; gloss- + -eme

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Parts of speech for Glosseme

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

glosseme popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 48% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

glosseme usage trend in Literature

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