Library / English Dictionary

BOUND MORPHEME

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns

Synonyms:

bound form; bound morpheme

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("bound morpheme" is a kind of...):

morpheme (minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bound morpheme"):

combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)

affix (a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form)

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