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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French morphème, from Greek morph? form Date: 1926 a distinctive collocation of phonemes (as the free form pin or the bound form -s of pins) having no smaller meaningful parts • morphemic adjective • morphemically adverb

Britannica Concise

In linguistics, the smallest grammatical unit of speech. It may be an entire word (cat) or an element of a word (re- and -ed in reappeared). In so-called isolating languages, like Vietnamese, each word contains a single morpheme; in languages like English, words often contain multiple morphemes. The study of morphemes is included in morphology.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Linguistics 1 a morphological element considered in respect of its functional relations in a linguistic system. 2 a meaningful morphological unit of a language that cannot be further divided (e.g. in, come, -ing, forming incoming). Derivatives: morphemic adj. morphemically adv. Etymology: F morphème f. Gk morphe form, after PHONEME

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(morphemes) A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning in a language. The words 'the', 'in', and 'girl' consist of one morpheme. The word 'girls' consists of two morphemes: 'girl' and 's'. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

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