Sememe
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈsɛmiːm/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sememe is a noun meaning (linguistics) The smallest unit of meaning; especially, the meaning expressed by a morpheme.
Meaning
(linguistics) The smallest unit of meaning; especially, the meaning expressed by a morpheme.
Example Sentences
HowNet organizes all the sememes into several trees, and each sememe is considered a node of a tree.
Since sememes are enhanced in the sememe network (as shown in Fig. 3), both a topic and an article analysis can rely on the sememe network instead of explicit term matching.
Any given word of a natural language in its shared acceptations represents a seme, sememe, or set of sememes, but the profile that we can compile as representing the shared elements in a list of synonymous and parasynonymous words is an artificial construct, an instance of meta-language, thus called a constructed sememe.
Word Forms
- sememes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include semanteme, morpheme, word, lingueme, plereme, semon.
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