lexical meaning

noun

the meaning of a base morpheme.

Compare grammatical meaning.

Origin of lexical meaning

First recorded in 1930–35

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British Dictionary definitions for lexical meaning

lexical meaning

noun

the meaning of a word in relation to the physical world or to abstract concepts, without reference to any sentence in which the word may occurCompare grammatical meaning, content word

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