Morpheme

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  morpheme
       n : minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into
           smaller meaningful units

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "morpheme":
     IC analysis, accidence, affix, affixation, allomorph,
     bound morpheme, conjugation, cutting, declension, derivation,
     difference of form, enclitic, form, formative, free form, glosseme,
     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