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free morphemes

free morphemes is the plural of free morpheme.

Meaning of free morpheme

Noun

free morpheme (plural free morphemes)

  1. A morpheme that can carry meaning on its own, and does not require a prefix, suffix, or infix to give it meaning.
    • Book is a free morpheme, but the -s on books is not, because -s carries no meaning until joined to a free morpheme.

Questions about free morphemes

What is free morphemes the plural of?
Free morphemes is the plural of free morpheme.

Words near free morphemes in the dictionary

  1. free module
  2. free modules
  3. free monoid
  4. free monoids
  5. free morpheme
  6. free morphemes
  7. free neutron
  8. free neutrons
  9. free of charge
  10. free of the city
  11. free on board

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Adapted from Wiktionary: free morphemes (page history and authors); free morpheme (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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