"linguistic unit" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{head|en|noun}} linguistic unit
  1. any of range of units of language, whether a word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, whole conversation or a story, morpheme, grapheme, phoneme and syllable Synonyms: unit of language, linguistic unit, unit of language Hypernyms: entity Holonyms: language Translations (any of range of units of language): jazyková jednotka [feminine] (Czech)
    Sense id: en-linguistic_unit-en-noun-MyaPPfyH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Hyponyms: linguistic unit, word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, conversation, story, discourse, morpheme, grapheme, phoneme, syllable

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