MORPHEME


Meaning of MORPHEME in English

n.

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 such as English, words often contain multiple morphemes. The study of morphemes is included in morphology .

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