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lexical meaning

American

noun

the meaning of a base morpheme.

lexical meaning British

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 occur Compare grammatical meaning content word

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Etymology

Origin of lexical meaning

First recorded in 1930–35

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