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Meaning of "sememe" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SEMEME

(Coined in 1933 by Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949), US linguist): from Greek sēma a sign + -eme.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SEMEME

ˈsiːmiːm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEMEME

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sememe 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 SEMEME MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sememe

A sememe (from Greek σημαίνω (sēmaino), meaning "mean, signify") is a semantic language unit of meaning, correlative to a morpheme. The concept is relevant in structural semiotics. A sememe is a proposed unit of transmitted or intended meaning; it is atomic or indivisible. A sememe can be the meaning expressed by a morpheme, such as the English pluralizing morpheme -s, which carries the sememic feature. Alternatively, a single sememe (for example or ) can be conceived as the abstract representation of such verbs as skate, roll, jump, slide, turn, or boogie. It can be thought of as the semantic counterpart to any of the following: a meme in a culture, a gene in a genetic make-up, or an atom (or, more specifically, an elementary particle) in a substance. A seme is the name for the smallest unit of meaning recognized in semantics, referring to a single characteristic of a sememe.

Definition of sememe in the English dictionary

The definition of sememe in the dictionary is the meaning of a morpheme. Other definition of sememe is Also called: semanteme. a minimum unit of meaning in terms of which it is sometimes proposed that meaning in general might be analysed.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SEMEME

beam · cream · dream · enthymeme · extreme · hakim · mainstream · meme · neem · redeem · regime · scheme · scream · seem · steam · stream · supreme · tagmeme · team · theme

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SEMEME

seme · semeiologic · semeiological · semeiologist · semeiology · semeion · semeiotic · semeiotician · semeiotics · Semele · semelparity · semelparous · sememic · semen · Semeroe · Semeru · semester · semestral · semestrial · semi

WORDS THAT END LIKE SEMEME

academe · bireme · bonus scheme · breme · careme · color scheme · colour scheme · deme · feme · grapheme · heme · housing scheme · incentive scheme · insurance scheme · morpheme · pension scheme · pilot scheme · Ponzi scheme · queme · seme

Synonyms and antonyms of sememe in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sememe» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF SEMEME

Find out the translation of sememe to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of sememe from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sememe» in English.
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Translator English - Chinese

义素
1,325 millions of speakers
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semema
570 millions of speakers
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English

sememe
510 millions of speakers
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sememe
380 millions of speakers
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sememe
280 millions of speakers
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семема
278 millions of speakers
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semema
270 millions of speakers
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sememe
260 millions of speakers
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sémème
220 millions of speakers
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Sememe
190 millions of speakers
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sememe
180 millions of speakers
ja

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意義素
130 millions of speakers
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sememe
85 millions of speakers
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Semene
85 millions of speakers
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sememe
80 millions of speakers
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sememe
75 millions of speakers
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Sememe
75 millions of speakers
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sememe
70 millions of speakers
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semema
65 millions of speakers
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sememe
50 millions of speakers
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семема
40 millions of speakers
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sememe
30 millions of speakers
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sememe
15 millions of speakers
af

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sememe
14 millions of speakers
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sememe
10 millions of speakers
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sememe
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sememe

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SEMEME»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of sememe
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sememe

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEMEME»

Discover the use of sememe in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sememe and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Web Information Systems - WISE 2006: 7th International ...
Then the word w can be denoted by the sememe vector, which is defined as SemeV=(Seme1, Seme2, ..., Semen) . (7) Definition 8: Suppose Seme is a sememe, and SemeV is a sememe vector (Seme1, Seme2, ..., Semen). Then the similarity ...
Karl Aberer, 2006
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Cultural Semiotics, Spenser, and the Captive Woman
One will then be able to sort those extracted words into groups of synonyms and parasynonyms (near or partial synonyms9), so that each group reveals as its common ground a constructed sememe. (To understand the concept, we must recall ...
Louise Schleiner, 1995
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2011 International Conference in Electrics, Communication ...
Therefore, we consider the DEF items as the concept's connotation, and a sememe is the character of the concept. Computation of Hyponymic Relation Degree Based on Concept Connotation with Inclusion Relation For the sake of calculating ...
Ran Chen, 2011
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Connectionist Psychology: A Text with Readings
At the sememe levet. units that represent closely related features are interconnected (hence the wrthin-level connections at the sememe level1. 80 cleanup units 68 sememe units 40 intermediate units C 28 grapheme units J Semantic ...
Rob Ellis, Glyn W. Humphreys, 1999
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Advanced Research on Computer Science and Information ...
The word of this language is “Sememe”. “Sememe” is the smallest unit to describe a concept. The language of HowNet provide: When a concept and an event have the dynamic role-relation, the language will use a specific symbol to describe ...
Gang Shen, Xiong Huang, 2011
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Essays in Honor of Charles F. Hockett
In customary stratificationalist parlance (Lamb 1964, 1965, 1966, Lock- wood 1972, Makkai 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975; Makkai and Lockwood [Eds.] 1973,) one refers to the SEMEME as the REALIZATE OF A LEXEME, or that piece of fragment of ...
Charles F.: Festschrift Hockett, Frederick Browning Agard, 1983
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Key Terms in Semiotics
See also lexeme and sememe. Sememe A sememe is the totality of semes that are actualized by a term within a given context. In Blake's poetry the following sememe could be attached to the term 'city': industrial, black, crowded, poverty, pain, ...
Bronwen Martin, Felizitas Ringham, 2006
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Componential Analysis of Lushai Phonology
an exclusively reflexive-metalinguistic sememe occurs as such in one or several given positions or it would have to be considered as a case of sememe disjunction. To quote Heger once again: An example for this type of sememe disjunction, ...
Alfons Weidert, 1975
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The Prague School of Structural and Functional Linguistics: ...
sememe and a polysemic lexeme is characterized by a set of primary and secondary structural sememes (a semantic spectrum). The sememe as a mental value is objectivized in the process of communication as a social value, and it is formed ...
Philip Luelsdorff, 1994
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Concord in Discourse: Harmonics and Semiotics in Late ...
"ratio", lexemes 2 and 3 the sememes a. "ratio" and b. "relation", and lexeme 4 the sememes a. "ratio", b. "relation", and c. "number" — this double motion being variously activated on axes X, Y, and Z. 363 But starting from the sememe "ratio",  ...
Stephen Gersh, 1996

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEMEME»

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“Corrections” Nigerian newspaper grammar columnists consistently …
So even from these examples, we can see how the sememe “YOUR NIGHT” got eventually “smuggled” into Nigerian English. In those Nigerian languages, ... «Daily Trust, Mar 15»
REFERENCE
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