LEXICAL MEANING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The meaning of a content word that depends on the nonlinguistic concepts it is used to express

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("lexical meaning" is a kind of...):

import; meaning; significance; signification (the message that is intended or expressed or signified)

Holonyms ("lexical meaning" is a part of...):

content word; open-class word (a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned)

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