bound form

bound form

noun
a linguistic form that never occurs by itself but always as part of some larger construction, as -ed in seated. Compare free form (def. 2).
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bound form

noun
a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns [syn: bound morpheme
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