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lexical meaning

noun
  1. the meaning of a base morpheme.
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Origin of lexical meaning

First recorded in 1930–35
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lexical meaning

noun
  1. 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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