Usually means: Dependent, attaches to other words.
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  1. clitic: Merriam-Webster
  2. clitic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clitic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clitic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clitic: Wiktionary
  6. clitic: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. clitic: Dictionary.com
  8. Clitic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. clitic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Clitic: Lexicon of Linguistics

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clitic: Medical dictionary

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  1. clitic: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (clitic)

noun:  (linguistics) A morpheme that functions like a word, but never appears as an independent word, instead being always attached to a following or preceding word (or, in some cases, within a surrounding word).

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