morpheme
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)
- minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful unitsType of language unit, linguistic unitKinds ending, classifier, free morpheme, allomorph, clitic, bound morpheme
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
mor′pheme (môr′fēm), noun
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.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors