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Definition of Lexeme
1. Noun. 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'.
Definition of Lexeme
1. Noun. (linguistics) Roughly, the set of inflected forms taken by a single word, such as the lexeme RUN including as members "run" (lemma), "running" (inflected form), or "ran", and excluding "runner" (derived term). ¹
2. Noun. (computing) an individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lexeme
1. a linguistic unit [n -S] : LEXEMIC [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lexeme
Literary usage of Lexeme
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"The formation of librero served to create a new lexeme that is in some sense
independent of its base. Many other words have been formed in a similar way, ..."
2. A Testimony of Jesus Christ by Anthony Charles Garland (2007)
"51 "lexeme: n. A minimal unit in the semantic system of a language; ... When this
occurs, both head noun and genitive noun have the same lexeme. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1910)
"JD Mitchell of Victoria, Texas, for a series of E. lexeme and the type ...
lexeme, but in central Texas when- the latter species is the prevailing or, ..."
4. A Danish-English Dictionary by James Stephen Ferrall, Þorleifur Guðmundsson Repp (1845)
"... <"(i- skilled in botany; -lag/ layer of vegetable substance (as in bogs); -lexeme/
vegetable body; -lil.1, vegetable life; ..."
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