minimum free form
Linguistics
noun
The smallest meaningful unit into which a linguistic element, structure, or utterance can be subdivided; a minimal free form.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949), linguist.
- hosiery
- hosp.
- hospice
- hospitable
- hospitably
- hospital
- hospital administrator
- hospital ball
- hospital corners
- hospitaler
- Hospitalet
- Hospitalet de Llobregat
- hospital fever
- hospitalisation
- hospitalise
- hospitalism
- hospitalist
- hospitality
- hospitalization
- hospitalize
- hospitaller
- hospital nurse
- hospital pass
- hospital ship
- hospital trust