lexical meaning
noun
the meaning of a base morpheme.
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Nearby words
lexeme, lexica, lexical, lexical decision task, lexical insertion, lexical meaning, lexical order, lexicalize, lexically, lexicog., lexicographer
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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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