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Definition of '-eme'

-eme in British

suffix forming nouns
linguistics
indicating a minimal distinctive unit of a specified type in a language
morpheme
phoneme
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Word origin of '-eme'
C20: via French, abstracted from phoneme

-eme in American

(im ; ēm)
Linguistics
a distinctive unit of language structure at a (specified) level of analysis, generally characterized as a class consisting of all the variant forms of the given unit
the grapheme <w> consists of all the possible written forms of the letter w
Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Word origin of '-eme'
Fr -ème, unit, sound < phonème, phoneme

Nearby words of '-eme'

  • embusy
  • emcee
  • Emden
  • -eme
  • EMEA
  • emeer
  • emend

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Definition of -eme from the Collins English Dictionary

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