Usually means: Basic unit of semantic meaning.
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  1. sememe: Merriam-Webster
  2. sememe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sememe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sememe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sememe: Wiktionary
  6. sememe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. sememe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. sememe: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. sememe: Dictionary.com
  10. Sememe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. sememe: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sememe)

▸ noun:  (linguistics) The smallest unit of meaning; especially, the meaning expressed by a morpheme.

Similar:
semanteme, morpheme, word, lingueme, plereme, semon, chereme, lexeme, syntaxeme, submorpheme, more...

Types:
lexical, syntactic, logical, pragmatic, conceptual, more...

Adjectives:
same, corresponding, basic, single, particular, intensional

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Similar:
semanteme, morpheme, word, lingueme, plereme, semon, chereme, lexeme, syntaxeme, submorpheme, more...

Types:
lexical, syntactic, logical, pragmatic, conceptual, more...

Adjectives:
same, corresponding, basic, single, particular, intensional



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