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1. one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed (noun.communication)
| hyponym | : | discourse, |
| definition | : | extended verbal expression in speech or writing (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | word, |
| definition | : | a unit of language that native speakers can identify (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | syllable, |
| definition | : | a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | lexeme, |
| definition | : | 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' (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | morpheme, |
| definition | : | minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | formative, |
| definition | : | minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | name, |
| definition | : | a language unit by which a person or thing is known (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | collocation, |
| definition | : | a grouping of words in a sentence (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | phone, sound, speech sound, |
| definition | : | (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | sign, |
| definition | : | a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified (noun.communication) |
| part meronym | : | string, |
| definition | : | a linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases) (noun.communication) |
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