Associations to the word «Lexeme»
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Wiktionary
LEXEME, noun. (linguistics) Roughly, the set of inflected forms taken by a single word, such as the lexeme RUN including as members "run" (lemma), "running" (inflected form), or "ran", and excluding "runner" (derived term).
LEXEME, noun. (computing) an individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token)
Dictionary definition
LEXEME, 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'.
Wise words
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.