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  1. noun A meaningful linguistic unit consisting of a word, such as man, or a word element, such as -ed in walked, that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts.

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  • An interesting fact about these word elements is that the number of morphemes contained in a word is completely independent of the number of syllables in the word.Here are some two or more syllable words with just one morpheme:orangecommonrelatecornereveryThe above words are polysyllabic but they cannot be broken down into any more meaningful parts.
  • It can get a bit tricky determining what is and isn't a morpheme, such as the -er in corner not being a suffix.Here are some one syllable words with more than one morpheme:caughtwenthelpedmenitsThe above monosyllabic words contain more than one meaningful element.
  • It would not make sense to break it down further into, say, o + range.There are 2 kinds of morphemes: free and bound.Free morphemes can stand alone and have meaning independently.Bound morphemes must be attached to a free morpheme, they cannot be used by themselves!
  • Take the third person singular morpheme in English 's.
  • NaturalMotion at GDC - Meeting developers and publishers to show off euphoria and morpheme. —  GamesIndustry.biz - News
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  1. French morphème, blend of Greek morphē, form and French phonème, phoneme; see phoneme.
 

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