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- [lek-seem]
- /ˈlɛk sim/
- /ˈlek.siːm/
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- [lek-seem]
- /ˈlɛk sim/
Definitions of lexeme word
- noun lexeme a lexical unit in a language, as a word or base; vocabulary item. 1
- noun lexeme A basic lexical unit of a language, consisting of one word or several words, considered as an abstract unit, and applied to a family of words related by form or meaning. 1
- noun Technical meaning of lexeme (grammar) A minimal lexical unit of a language. Lexical analysis converts strings in a language into a list of lexemes. For a programming language these word-like pieces would include keywords, identifiers, literals and punctuation. The lexemes are then passed to the parser for syntactic analysis. 1
- noun lexeme a minimal meaningful unit of language, the meaning of which cannot be understood from that of its component morphemes. Take off (in the senses to mimic, to become airborne, etc) is a lexeme, as well as the independent morphemes take and off 0
- noun lexeme a word or stem that is a meaningful unit in a language and coincides with the abstract unit underlying a given set of inflected forms 0
- noun lexeme (linguistics) Roughly, the set of inflected forms taken by a single word, such as the lexeme RUN including as members "run" (lemma), "running" (inflected form), or "ran", and excluding "runner" (derived term). 0
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Origin of lexeme
First appearance:
before 1935 One of the 8% newest English words
1935-40; lex(ical) or lex(icon) + -eme
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Parts of speech for Lexeme
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adjective
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pronoun
preposition
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determiner
exclamation
lexeme popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 74% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
According to our data about 60% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.
lexeme usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for lexeme
noun lexeme
- sound — The, a strait between SW Sweden and Zealand, connecting the Kattegat and the Baltic. 87 miles (140 km) long; 3–30 miles (5–48 km) wide.
- term — a word or phrase that has a specific or precise meaning within a given discipline or field and might have a different meaning in common usage: Set is a term of art used by mathematicians, and burden of proof is a term of art used by lawyers.
- concept — A concept is an idea or abstract principle.
- name — a dictionary of given names that indicates whether a name is usually male, female, or unisex and often includes origins as well as meanings; for example, as by indicating that Evangeline, meaning “good news,” comes from Greek. Used primarily as an aid in selecting a name for a baby, dictionaries of names may also include lists of famous people who have shared a name and information about its current popularity ranking.
- phrase — Grammar. a sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction and acting as a unit in a sentence. (in English) a sequence of two or more words that does not contain a finite verb and its subject or that does not consist of clause elements such as subject, verb, object, or complement, as a preposition and a noun or pronoun, an adjective and noun, or an adverb and verb.
Antonyms for lexeme
noun lexeme
- silence — absence of any sound or noise; stillness.
- question — a sentence in an interrogative form, addressed to someone in order to get information in reply.
- breach — If you breach an agreement, a law, or a promise, you break it.
- break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
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