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lexeme
This term is a technical abstraction used primarily in linguistics to distinguish the conceptual identity of a word from its various surface manifestations. It functions as the umbrella term for a set of all inflected forms, meaning that while walk, walks, and walking are different word-forms, they all belong to a single lexeme.
Because it describes a theoretical unit of a lexicon, the word is used almost exclusively in academic, pedagogical, or computational linguistics contexts. It is not a term used in general conversation to describe a word, but rather to describe the structural category that organizes those words.
Meanings
Examples
The professor explained that a lexeme is the abstract base form of a word.
I wonder if this specific lexeme has any irregular plural forms.
Each lexeme in the dictionary entry represents a single semantic unit.
Wait, so the words sing and sang are actually part of the same lexeme?
The linguist analyzed how the lexeme evolved over several centuries.
We need to identify every unique lexeme used in the ancient manuscript.
The software identifies each lexeme to calculate the vocabulary richness of the text.
It is difficult to map every lexeme from one language to another perfectly.