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lexical item

lexical item noun: a term (that is, a word or sequence of words) that acts as a unit of meaning, including words, phrases, phrasal verbs, and proverbs.

Noun

lexical item (plural lexical items)

  1. A term (that is, a word or sequence of words) that acts as a unit of meaning, including words, phrases, phrasal verbs, and proverbs.
    • He also realized that by comparing different types of text you may be able to spot "a different density ( repetition rate ) of lexical items, and different degrees of cohesion, in the short story and in the novel.1993, Roman Kopytko, Polite Discourse in Shakespeare's English, page 396
    • It is not surprising that this is a very common structure in language, because it allows the flexibility that was identified earlier in this paper as essential for an adequate lexical item.1998, Edda Weigand, Contrastive Lexical Semantics, page 22

lexical item meaning in Vietnamese

lexical item in Vietnamese

term that acts as a unit of meaning
đơn vị từ vựng

Examples of lexical item in a sentence

  • A lexical item, or lexeme, is a dictionary word, an item which you would expect to find having its own entry in a dictionary.1999, Robert Lawrence Trask, Key Concepts in Language and Linguistics, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 228:
  • The meaning of lexical items may be described in terms of combinations of semantic features.2007, Kristel Proost ·, Conceptual Structure in Lexical Items, page 114:
  • Thus there are 3751 lexical items covered in total.2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography...

Forms of lexical item

plurallexical items

Origin of lexical item

From lexical + item.

Questions about lexical item

What does lexical item mean?
Lexical item means a term (that is, a word or sequence of words) that acts as a unit of meaning, including words, phrases, phrasal verbs, and proverbs.
What is lexical item in Vietnamese?
Lexical item in Vietnamese is đơn vị từ vựng. See Lexical item meaning in Vietnamese.
How do you use lexical item in a sentence?
A lexical item, or lexeme, is a dictionary word, an item which you would expect to find having its own entry in a dictionary.
What part of speech is lexical item?
Lexical item is a noun.
What is the plural of lexical item?
The plural of lexical item is lexical items.

Words near lexical item in the dictionary

  1. lexical density
  2. lexical gap
  3. lexical gaps
  4. lexical innovation
  5. lexical innovations
  6. lexical item
  7. lexical items
  8. lexical middle voice
  9. lexical resource
  10. lexical resources
  11. lexical scope

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