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Meaning of "morpheme" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MORPHEME

From French, from Greek morphē form, coined on the model of phoneme.
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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 MORPHEME

morpheme  [ˈmɔːfiːm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MORPHEME

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Morpheme 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 MORPHEME MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Morpheme

In linguistics, a morpheme is the smallest grammatical unit in a language. The field of study dedicated to morphemes is called morphology. A morpheme is not identical to a word, and the principal difference between the two is that a morpheme may or may not stand alone, whereas a word, by definition, is freestanding. When it stands by itself, it is considered a root because it has a meaning of its own and when it depends on another morpheme to express an idea, it is an affix because it has a grammatical function. Every word comprises one or more morphemes. The more combinations a morpheme is found in, the more productive it is said to be.

Definition of morpheme in the English dictionary

The definition of morpheme in the dictionary is a speech element having a meaning or grammatical function that cannot be subdivided into further such elements.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MORPHEME


beam
biːm
blaspheme
blæsˈfiːm
cream
kriːm
dream
driːm
extreme
ɪkˈstriːm
grapheme
ˈɡræfiːm
hakim
hɑːˈkiːm
mainstream
ˈmeɪnˌstriːm
meme
miːm
neem
niːm
regime
reɪˈʒiːm
scheme
skiːm
scream
skriːm
seem
siːm
steam
stiːm
stream
striːm
supreme
sʊˈpriːm
team
tiːm
telepheme
ˈtɛlɪˌfiːm
theme
θiːm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MORPHEME

morph
morph.
morphactin
morphallaxes
morphallaxis
Morphean
morphemic
morphemically
morphemics
Morpheus
morphew
morphia
morphic resonance
morphine
morphine addict
morphine addiction
morphing
morphinic
morphinism
morphinomania

WORDS THAT END LIKE MORPHEME

bonus scheme
color scheme
colour scheme
Enterprise Allowance Scheme
get-rich-quick scheme
heme
housing scheme
incentive scheme
insurance scheme
job creation scheme
marking scheme
pension scheme
pilot scheme
Ponzi scheme
profit-sharing scheme
recycling scheme
rheme
rhyme scheme
subtheme
training scheme

Synonyms and antonyms of morpheme in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «morpheme» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MORPHEME

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

Translator English - Chinese

语素
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

morfema
570 millions of speakers

English

morpheme
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रूपिम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

morpheme
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

морфемы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

morfema
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রূপমূল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

morphème
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Morfem
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Morphem
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

形態素
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

형태소
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Morfem
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

morpheme
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கட்டுருபன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शब्दाचा लहानात लहान अर्थपूर्ण अवयव
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

morfem
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

morfema
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

morfem
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

морфеми
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

morfem
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

morpheme
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

morfeem
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

morfem
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

morpheme
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of morpheme

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MORPHEME»

The term «morpheme» is regularly used and occupies the 58.496 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MORPHEME» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «morpheme» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «morpheme» 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 morpheme

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MORPHEME»

Discover the use of morpheme in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to morpheme 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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Morpheme Order and Semantic Scope: Word Formation in the ...
This book offers a rich and theoretically informed survey of verb structure in Athapaskan languages.
Keren Rice, S. R. Anderson, 2006
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Modern English Structures, second edition: Form, Function, ...
Free morphemes Free morphemes are exactly that — "free" — because they do not require a second free or bound morpheme to express full meaning at the word level. When we first see them, we think of them as words because that is our  ...
Bernard O'Dwyer, 2006
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A Manual of English Phonetics and Phonology: Twelve Lessons ...
When a morpheme has only one concrete form, or realisation, that form is called a morph. The present participle morpheme, for example, is always realised by the morph -ing. When a morpheme has two or more realisations, however, each of ...
Peter Burleigh, 2005
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An Introduction to English Morphology: Words and Their Structure
morphemes is cranberry morpheme. Cranberry morphemes are more than just a curiosity, because they reinforce the difficulty of tying morphemes tightly to meaning. What does cran- mean? Arguably, nothing at all; it is only the entire word ...
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, 2002
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Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication
A free morpheme can stand alone as an independent word in a phrase, such as the word tree in John sat in the tree. A bound morpheme cannot stand alone but must be attached to another morpheme — as, for example, the plural morpheme  ...
Adrian Akmajian, 2001
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English Words: History and Structure
But each of these words is a single morpheme. Morphemes may be less than a syllable in length, too. Consider car vs. cars. Cars is one syllable, but two morphemes, namely Vcar + V-s, where V-s is the morpheme that means "plural," i.e., ...
Robert P. Stockwell, Donka Minkova, 2001
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Linguistic Theory: Foundations
In consequence, when we identify a morpheme within (but not coextensive with) some word, it should follow that the residue after extracting this morpheme is another morpheme (or sequence of morphemes). If this residue occurs nowhere  ...
Frederick J. Newmeyer, 1988
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Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction
A morpheme is often described as the smallest unit of meaning in a word. On this logic, there are two morphemes in the word pancake, namely, pan and cake, both of which have rather obvious, recognizable meanings, and both of which are ...
Kristin Denham, Anne Lobeck, 2009
10
An Introduction to Language
four morphemes gentle + man + li + ness un + desire + able + ity more than four un + gentle + man + li + ness anti + dis + establish + ment + ari + an + ism A morpheme may be represented by a single sound, such as the morpheme a meaning ...
Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman, Nina Hyams, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MORPHEME»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term morpheme is used in the context of the following news items.
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VR Animation Programmer - Games - London
Tackling feature based work specializing in animation and character performance in conjunction with Morpheme and PhysX. Design and development of ... «Develop, Jul 15»
2
Grexit, Greferendum, Agreekment. Now, Aggravation.
These neologisms are examples of portmanteau, which Merriam-Webster's online dictionary describes as “a word or morpheme whose form ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
3
Pak determined to overcome drug menace: Bandesha
With huge production of drugs including heroin, morpheme in Afghanistan, Pakistan has become a hub for supply of Afghan drug to rest of ... «Pakistan Observer, Jul 15»
4
Morpheme: An Annual Legend
A red-blooded Italian, Nick Pontarolo loves making delicious sausage as much as slashing turns, which he's done for 15 straight months, from ... «Powder Magazine, Jul 15»
5
University of York researchers discover morpheme gene in poppies
A team of scientist form the University of York and pharmaceutics giant GlaxoSmithKline Australia have discovered a morpheme gene in ... «PerfScience, Jun 15»
6
Elizabeth Frankel: Your interest in modern languages is simply …
I transformed into a detective as I solved each clause and inspected the reasoning behind every morpheme. The Latin language happens to be ... «Post-Bulletin, Jun 15»
7
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for June 12
Numbers: The Boy Who'd Kill · Numbers: Morpheme Tales II · raincoaster · How a 16-year-old tricked the New York Times into reporting that ... «The Cryptosphere, Jun 15»
8
#Anonymous Wishes Matt DeHart a Happy Birthday
Numbers: The Boy Who'd Kill · Numbers: Morpheme Tales II · raincoaster · Death Takes No Holiday: Announces Run For President as ... «The Cryptosphere, Jun 15»
9
Watch out for hidden hazards of buying land
If a place name contains the morpheme “numa,” which means “marsh,” it not only may be more susceptible to flooding, but also could liquefy in ... «The Japan Times, Jun 15»
10
Morpheme: Blue Tram Time Machine
The morning of March 29, 2005, started out pretty pedestrian. The storm that was supposed to arrive didn't quite materialize, and with some old ... «Powder Magazine, May 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Morpheme [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/morpheme>. Apr 2024 ».
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