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morphemes

morphemes is the plural of morpheme.

Meaning of morpheme

Noun

morpheme (plural morphemes)

  1. The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning. It may be a letter, a syllable, or otherwise.
    • Just as a regiment is ultimately made up of soldiers, so the sentence is of morphemes—they are its ultimate constituents.1970, Thomas Pyles, John Algeo, English: An Introduction to Language, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 135

Phrases with morphemes

Questions about morphemes

What is morphemes the plural of?
Morphemes is the plural of morpheme.

Words near morphemes in the dictionary

  1. morpheein
  2. morpheeins
  3. morpheme
  4. morphemed
  5. morphemehood
  6. morphemes
  7. morphemetric
  8. morphemic
  9. morphemically
  10. morphemics
  11. morphemization

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Adapted from Wiktionary: morphemes (page history and authors); 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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