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citation form
noun
, Linguistics.
- the spoken form a word has when produced in isolation, such as when cited for purposes of illustration, as distinguished from the form it would have when produced in the normal stream of speech.
- the form of a lexical set that represents its entire inflectional paradigm in linguistic discussions and dictionary entries:
“Be” is the citation form for “be,” “am,” “is,” “are,” “was,” “were,” “been.”
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