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language unit
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | language unit - one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzedlinguistic unitdiscourse - extended verbal expression in speech or writingword - a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"syllable - a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; "the word `pocket' has two syllables"lexeme - 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'morpheme - minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful unitsformative - minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) functionname - a language unit by which a person or thing is known; "his name really is George Washington"; "those are two names for the same thing"string - a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases)collocation - a grouping of words in a sentencespeech sound, phone, sound - (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some languagesign - a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified; "The bond between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary"--de Saussurecomponent part, part, portion, component, constituent - something determined in relation to something that includes it; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton" |
language unit
Synonyms for language unitnoun one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzedSynonymsRelated Words- discourse
- word
- syllable
- lexeme
- morpheme
- formative
- name
- string
- collocation
- speech sound
- phone
- sound
- sign
- component part
- part
- portion
- component
- constituent
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