glossemen.
/ˈɡlɒsiːm/, U.S. /ˈɡlɔˌsim/, /ˈɡlɑˌsim/ Linguistics.
Any feature in a language (whether of form, stress, order, or the like) that carries meaning and cannot be analysed into smaller meaningful units.
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1926 L. Bloomfield in Language 2 161 Whatever has meaning is a glosseme.
1956 J. Whatmough Lang. 114 Just as a phoneme is the smallest unit of structural analysis, being a bundle of distinctive features, so a term is required for the smallest unit of significance; for this the term glosseme..has been introduced.
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