basic unit of the lexicon of a language; vocabulary item
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Lexeme Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
lexeme
n : a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the english lexeme `go'
Noun
1. a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go'
(hypernym) language unit, linguistic unit
Lexeme Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
A lexeme is an abstract unit of morphological analysis in linguistics, that roughly corresponds to a set of forms taken by a single word. For example, in the English language, run, runs, ran and running are forms of the same lexeme, conventionally written as RUN. A related concept is the lemma (or citation form), which is a particular form of a lexeme that is chosen by convention to represent a canonical form of a lexeme. Lemmas are used in dictionaries as the headwords, and other forms of a lexeme are often listed later in the entry if they are not common conjugations of that word.
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