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morpheme (oh)



[Date: 1800-1900; Language: French; Origin: morpheme, from Greek morphe 'form' + English -eme (as in phoneme)]
technical the smallest unit of meaning in a language. The words 'so', 'the' and 'boy' consist of one morpheme. 'Boys' consists of two morphemes, 'boy' and 's'.
::the past tense morpheme
::the plural morpheme