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Lexeme

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Noun

1. lexeme

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'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Lexeme

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noun
linguistics
a minimal meaningful unit of language, the meaning of which cannot be understood from that of its component morphemes. Take off (in the senses to mimic, to become airborne, etc) is a lexeme, as well as the independent morphemes take and off

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Lexeme

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noun
Linguistics
a word or stem that is a meaningful unit in a language and coincides with the abstract unit underlying a given set of inflected forms

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Lexeme

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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.

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