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lex·eme

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–noun Linguistics.

a lexical unit in a language, as a word or base; vocabulary item.

[Origin: 1935–40; lex(ical) or lex(icon) + -eme

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n. The fundamental unit of the lexicon of a language. Find, finds, found, and finding are forms of the English lexeme find.

[lex(icon) + -eme.]

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lexeme
noun
a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; 'go' and 'went' and 'gone' and 'going' are all members of the English lexeme 'go'

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