A meaning or concept as an aspect of a unit of speech.

In the writing system of the ancient Maya: a sign adjacent to, or placed within, the main sign in a glyph, typically representing a grammatical…

Any feature in a language (whether of form, stress, order, or the like) that carries meaning and cannot be analysed into smaller meaningful units.

the smallest meaningful unit into which a linguistic element, structure, or utterance can be subdivided; a minimal free form (see minimal, adj. 4a).

In glossematics: a minimal unit of meaningful expression; contrasted with keneme, n. Also: a word which has full lexical meaning on its own, as a…

(See quot. 1966.) Cf. empty word n. at empty, adj. n.compounds 2.