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).
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Origin of morpheme
1Other words from morpheme
- mor·phe·mic, adjective
- mor·phe·mi·cal·ly, adverb
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British Dictionary definitions for morpheme
/ (ˈmɔːfiːm) /
linguistics a speech element having a meaning or grammatical function that cannot be subdivided into further such elements
Origin of morpheme
1Derived forms of morpheme
- morphemic, adjective
- morphemically, adverb
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