lexeme
Meanings
Plural: lexemes
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'
- A lexical item corresponding to the set of all words (or of all multi-word expressions) that are semantically related through inflection of a particular shared basic form.
- The abstract minimum unit of language or meaning that underlies such a set.
- A lexical item corresponding to the set of all words (or of all multi-word expressions) that are semantically related through inflection of a particular shared basic form.
- The set itself; a lexemic family.
- A lexical item corresponding to the set of all words (or of all multi-word expressions) that are semantically related through inflection of a particular shared basic form.
- The wordform chosen to represent such a set or family.
- An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis.
Origin / Etymology
From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -eme, a suffix indicating a fundamental unit in some aspect of linguistic structure, on the model of phoneme.
Synonyms
base form, basic form, canonical form, citation form, dictionary form, headword, lemma, lexical item, semanteme
Scrabble Score: 15
lexeme is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordlexeme is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lexeme is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary