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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
morpheme \mor"pheme\ (m[^o]r"f[=e]m), noun (Linguistics) The smallest unit of meaning of a language, which cannot be divided into smaller parts carrying meaning; it is usually smaller than a single wordform, such as the -ed morpheme of verbs in the past tense or the -s morpheme of nouns in the plural form. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
morpheme
noun: minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "morpheme": IC analysis, accidence, affix, affixation, allomorph, bound morpheme, conjugation, cutting, declension, derivation, difference of form, enclitic, form, formative, free form, glosseme, icon, immediate constituent analysis, infix, infixation, inflection, lexeme, lexical form, morph, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphology, morphophonemics, paradigm, phrase, prefix, prefixation, proclitic, radical, root, semasiological unit, sememe, sign, signifiant, significant, stem, suffix, suffixation, symbol, term, theme, token, type, word, word-formation
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