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Definitions of morpheme
  1. noun
    minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units
Definition that contains morpheme
  • ending the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
  • termination the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme)
  • pluralise mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural
  • agglutinate string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language)
  • pluralize mark with a grammatical morpheme that indicates plural
  • classifier a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs
  • free morpheme a morpheme that can occur alone
  • morphophoneme (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme
  • sandhi the articulatory process whereby the pronunciation of a word or morpheme changes when it is followed immediately by another (especially in fluent speech)
  • bound form a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns
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