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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
The initial or final constituent of compounds that cannot occur outside the domain of compounds, i.e., they are not freely combinable with words or phrases into syntactic constituents, but can undergo coordination reduction in both directions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: word
History
From semi- + word.
Across languages
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
