morpheme

n.

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(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.

Noun

1.

morpheme - minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units

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