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Meaning of "lexeme" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LEXEME

From lex(icon) + -eme.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF LEXEME

lexeme  [ˈlɛksiːm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LEXEME

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Lexeme is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LEXEME MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Lexeme

A lexeme ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a unit of lexical meaning that exists regardless of the number of inflectional endings it may have or the number of words it may contain. It is a basic unit of meaning, and the headwords of a dictionary are all lexemes. Put more technically, a lexeme is an abstract unit of morphological analysis in linguistics, that roughly corresponds to a set of forms taken by a single word. For example, in the English language, run, runs, ran and running are forms of the same lexeme, conventionally written as RUN. A related concept is the lemma (or citation form), which is a particular form of a lexeme that is chosen by convention to represent a canonical form of a lexeme. Lemmas are used in dictionaries as the headwords, and other forms of a lexeme are often listed later in the entry if they are not common conjugations of that word. A lexeme belongs to a particular syntactic category, has a certain meaning (semantic value), and in inflecting languages, has a corresponding inflectional paradigm; that is, a lexeme in many languages will have many different forms.

Definition of lexeme in the English dictionary

The definition of lexeme in the dictionary is a minimal meaningful unit of language, the meaning of which cannot be understood from that of its component morphemes. Take off is a lexeme, as well as the independent morphemes take and off.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LEXEME


aldoxime
ælˈdɒksiːm
berseem
bɜːˈsiːm
beseem
bɪˈsiːm
chalutzim
xɑˈluːˈtsiːm
decime
ˈdɛsiːm
enseam
ɪnˈsiːm
exeme
ɛkˈsiːm
inseam
ˈɪnsiːm
ketoxime
kiːˈtɒksiːm
kibbutzim
ˌkɪbʊtˈsiːm
misbeseem
ˌmɪsbɪˈsiːm
misseem
ˌmɪsˈsiːm
oxime
ˈɒksiːm
raceme
rəˈsiːm
seam
siːm
seame
siːm
seem
siːm
seme
siːm
taxeme
ˈtæksiːm
unbeseem
ˌʌnbɪˈsiːm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LEXEME

lex
lex loci
lex non scripta
lex scripta
lex talionis
lexemic
lexical
lexical decision task
lexical insertion
lexical meaning
lexical order
lexicalisation
lexicalise
lexicalization
lexicalize
lexically
lexicog.
lexicographer
lexicographic
lexicographical

WORDS THAT END LIKE LEXEME

academe
bonus scheme
breme
careme
color scheme
colour scheme
deme
extreme
grapheme
heme
housing scheme
incentive scheme
meme
morpheme
pension scheme
pilot scheme
queme
scheme
supreme
theme

Synonyms and antonyms of lexeme in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «lexeme» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LEXEME

Find out the translation of lexeme to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of lexeme from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «lexeme» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

语义
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

lexema
570 millions of speakers

English

lexeme
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शब्दिम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

lexeme
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

лексема
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

lexeme
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

lexeme
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

lexème
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lexeme
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lexem
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

語彙素
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

어휘
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lexeme
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lexeme
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

லெக்செமே
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लेक्सेम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sözlükbirim
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

lessema
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

leksem
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лексема
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lexem
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

lexeme
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lexeme
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lexem
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lexeme
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of lexeme

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LEXEME»

The term «lexeme» is regularly used and occupies the 92.432 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LEXEME» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «lexeme» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «lexeme» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about lexeme

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LEXEME»

Discover the use of lexeme in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to lexeme and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology: A General Theory of ...
This is the first complete theory of the morphology of language, a compendium of information on morphological categories and operations.
Robert Beard, 1995
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The Composition of Meaning: From Lexeme to Discourse
The present collection of original articles develops the concept of these interfaces further. The papers in the first section focus on the syntax_semantics interface, those in the second section on the syntax_pragmatics interface.
Alice G. B. ter Meulen, Werner Abraham, 2004
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The Lexeme 'Hate' in the Dictionary
In the following, the lexeme hate is going to be explained with the help of three dictionaries, namely the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, the Random House Dictionary and the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.
Lena Mierike, 2011
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Bits, Bytes, and Binyanim: A Quantitative Study of Verbal ...
Using various quantitative methods, the book analyzes the complete verbal vocabulary of the Hebrew Bible as contained in the machine-readable text developed at the Werkgroep Informatica (Department of Biblical Studies, Vrije Universiteit, ...
Arian J. C. Verheij, 2000
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Synthetic Data Generation: Theory, Techniques and Applications
LexemeQueue -lexemes: ArrayList<Lexeme> |0>" +addLexeme (x: Lexeme) : void +checkE0F( ) : boolean +check (type: int ) : boolean +advance ( ) : Lexeme + match ( type : int) : Lexeme Lexer +lexFormula(s: String) : LexemeQueue ...
Joseph E. Hoag, 2008
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The Lexical Field of the Substantives of “Gift” in Ancient ...
Lexeme 19: Lexeme 20: Lexeme 21: Lexeme 22: Lexeme 23: Lexeme 24: Lexeme 25: Lexeme 26: Lexeme 27: Lexeme 28: Part Two Lexeme 1: Lexeme 2: Lexeme 3: Lexeme 4: Lexeme 5: Lexeme 6: Lexeme 7: Lexeme 8: Lexeme 9: Lexeme ...
Francesco Zanella, 2010
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Kognitive Semantik /Cognitive Semantics
Markus Egg Zur Repräsentation extrem polysemer Lexeme* Summary Analyses of polysemous lexemes which assume a core meaning common to all readings of the lexeme or which link all these readings in a network by relations of equal ...
Monika Schwarz, 1994
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Towards a Multifunctional Lexical Resource: Design and ...
Lexeme, be inferred as an instance of Lexeme, since there is no restriction that would specify that a Sense cannot be a Lexeme at the same time. Therefore, this axiom is only reasonable in combination with the disjointness of Lexeme and ...
Dennis Spohr, 2012
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Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament: ...
As is well known, it may be said that in Hebrew and in many other Semitic languages a word is constituted by the compounding of a discontinuous root lexeme, e.g. k-t-b 'write', and a pattern of affixes and vowels, e.g. miC1 c, aC3, which ...
James Barr, 1987
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The Communicative Perspective in the Sentence: A Study of ...
With respect to the accentual structure of Latin, Pulgram (1975:123, 262-263, 290 -291, passim) argues that Classical Latin, like French, is probably a cursus language of the type that not only obliterates lexeme boundaries, but that also ...
Dirk G. J. Panhuis, 1982

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LEXEME»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term lexeme is used in the context of the following news items.
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The English language is a circle with no circumference
Problem 3 (or three if you prefer) is known as a lexeme, or any extended clan of words. Skim these opening lines and you'll discover "I" in three ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 15»
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Indonesia Comes Up Short in $1 Billion Bid to Save Forests
... on the international urgency of this,” said Gabrielle Kissinger, a sustainable land-use consultant at Vancouver-based Lexeme Consulting and ... «Wall Street Journal, May 15»
3
All Sides: Compulsory credit in SPM Bahasa paper for MPs — yay or …
Ah Pong Chin: In terms of number of lexeme (basic lexical units of a language), English has more than a million, Chinese dialects have ... «The Rakyat Post, Apr 15»
4
Lain, the Whom of the Verb World
I follow The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language in using bold italics for the name of a verb dictionary entry (a verb lexeme, ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, Mar 15»
5
Federal judge halts Obama's order on immigration
Denotation is the specific idea or concept that a word or lexeme refers to;. connotation describes additional properties: poetic, slang, casual, ... «Austin American-Statesman, Feb 15»
6
Record Review: Flesh Lights
Time to amend all Flesh Lights-related documents and strike out the word "garage." That musical lexeme defies the precision and composition ... «Austin Chronicle, Oct 14»
7
How to Text, and Sext, Like a Gentleman
But the reader does not wish to grab the blunt cudgel of a weaponized lexeme, I sense, and so I suggest a quaint euphemism. Further, let's note ... «Slate Magazine, Oct 14»
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'Art begets art': Purdue North Central campus a visual beehive
As for the sculpture's name, Barrett created it as part of a series of work he called "Lexeme," which grew to 15 pieces in total. "The title is a word ... «nwitimes.com, Sep 14»
9
DEFINING YOUR TERMS
... which would be quite a change from the dictionary definition of the lexeme, not to mention completely unrelated to any kind of “phobia.”. «WND.com, Sep 14»
10
Former NAMA official charged with 'unlawfully disclosing …
He is accused of disclosing information relating to the Lexeme Retail Property Portfolio and the O'Flynn Group/Tiger Developments again to ... «Irish Independent, Sep 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Lexeme [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/lexeme>. May 2024 ».
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