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semanteme

semanteme noun: an indivisible unit of meaning.

Noun

semanteme (plural semantemes)

  1. an indivisible unit of meaning.
    • Toong Cheong spoke more rapidly now, and urgency and embarrassment reduced his speech to essential semantemes.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 53

semanteme meaning in Tamil

semanteme in Tamil

பொருளன்

Forms of semanteme

pluralsemantemes

Origin of semanteme

From semantic + -eme.

Questions about semanteme

What does semanteme mean?
Semanteme means an indivisible unit of meaning.
What is semanteme in Tamil?
Semanteme in Tamil is பொருளன். See Semanteme meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is semanteme?
Semanteme is a noun.
What is the plural of semanteme?
The plural of semanteme is semantemes.

Words near semanteme in the dictionary

  1. Semaj
  2. Seman
  3. Semang
  4. Semangs
  5. Semans
  6. semanteme
  7. semantemes
  8. semantic
  9. semantic analyses
  10. semantic analysis
  11. semantic bleaching

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Adapted from Wiktionary: semanteme (page history and authors); semanteme (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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