Associations to the word «Lexeme»

Wiktionary

LEXEME, noun. (linguistics) Roughly, the set of inflected forms taken by a single word, such as the lexeme RUN including as members "run" (lemma), "running" (inflected form), or "ran", and excluding "runner" (derived term).
LEXEME, noun. (computing) an individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token)

Dictionary definition

LEXEME, noun. A minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go'.

Wise words

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
Dan Quayle