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ALL meanings of morpheme

mor·pheme
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  • noun morpheme smallest unit of language 1
  • noun morpheme A meaningful morphological unit of a language that cannot be further divided (e.g., in, come, -ing, forming incoming ). 1
  • noun morpheme any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Compare allomorph (def 2), morph (def 1). 1
  • countable noun morpheme A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in a language. The words 'the', 'in', and 'girl' consist of one morpheme. The word 'girls' consists of two morphemes: 'girl' and 's'. 0
  • noun morpheme a speech element having a meaning or grammatical function that cannot be subdivided into further such elements 0
  • noun morpheme the smallest meaningful unit or form in a language: it may be an affix (Ex.: un- in undo or -er in doer) or a base (Ex.: do in undo) 0
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