Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
a unit of language that can only be used as part of a word, not as a word on its own (such as the English suffix -ly).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bound morpheme
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: morpheme
Narrower terms: combining form, affix
History
bound + form
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
