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noun
the meaning of a base morpheme.
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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.
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Origin of lexical meaning
First recorded in 1930–35
Words nearby lexical meaning
lexeme, lexical, lexical decision task, lexical insertion, lexicalize, lexical meaning, lexical order, lexicog., lexicographer, lexicographically, lexicography
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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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