"free morpheme" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: free morphemes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} free morpheme (plural free morphemes)
  1. (linguistic morphology) A morpheme that can carry meaning on its own, and does not require a prefix, suffix, or infix to give it meaning. Categories (topical): Linguistic morphology Translations (type of morpheme): vapaa morfeemi (Finnish), morphème libre [masculine] (French), freies Morphem [neuter] (German), 自由形態素 (jiyū keitaiso) (Japanese), morfem leksykalny [masculine] (Polish), hình vị tự do (Vietnamese)

Inflected forms

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            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
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        {
          "text": "Book is a free morpheme, but the -s on books is not, because -s carries no meaning until joined to a free morpheme.",
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        }
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        [
          "morphology",
          "morphology"
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        [
          "morpheme",
          "morpheme"
        ],
        [
          "prefix",
          "prefix"
        ],
        [
          "suffix",
          "suffix"
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        [
          "infix",
          "infix#Noun"
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        "(linguistic morphology) A morpheme that can carry meaning on its own, and does not require a prefix, suffix, or infix to give it meaning."
      ],
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        "linguistic-morphology",
        "linguistics",
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "type of morpheme",
          "word": "vapaa morfeemi"
        },
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          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "type of morpheme",
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          ],
          "word": "morphème libre"
        },
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "type of morpheme",
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            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "freies Morphem"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
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          "sense": "type of morpheme",
          "word": "自由形態素"
        },
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "type of morpheme",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "morfem leksykalny"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "type of morpheme",
          "word": "hình vị tự do"
        }
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    }
  ],
  "word": "free morpheme"
}
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    }
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        "plural"
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        }
      ],
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      ],
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        ],
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        ]
      ],
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        "(linguistic morphology) A morpheme that can carry meaning on its own, and does not require a prefix, suffix, or infix to give it meaning."
      ],
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "type of morpheme",
      "word": "vapaa morfeemi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "type of morpheme",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "morphème libre"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "type of morpheme",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "freies Morphem"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "jiyū keitaiso",
      "sense": "type of morpheme",
      "word": "自由形態素"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "type of morpheme",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "morfem leksykalny"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "type of morpheme",
      "word": "hình vị tự do"
    }
  ],
  "word": "free morpheme"
}

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