Associations to the word «Morpheme»

Wiktionary

MORPHEME, noun. (linguistic morphology) A smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable".

Dictionary definition

MORPHEME, noun. Minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats