word
morpheme
MOR-feem
ˈmɔːrfiːmListen
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Syllable breakdown
morpheme
Dictionary meaning
the smallest grammatical unit in a language that carries meaning; morphemes may be free, capable of standing alone as words, or bound, requiring attachment to another element; for example the word unbreakable contains three morphemes: the prefix un- meaning not, the root break, and the suffix -able meaning capable of; morphology is the branch of linguistics that studies how morphemes combine to form words
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