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lexical item

noun

Etymology

From lexical + item.

  1. derived from item
  2. inherited from item
  3. compounded as lexical item — “lexical + item”

Definitions

  1. A term (that is, a word or sequence of words) that acts as a unit of meaning, including…

    A term (that is, a word or sequence of words) that acts as a unit of meaning, including words, phrases, phrasal verbs, and proverbs.

    • He also realized that by comparing different types of text you may be able to spot "a different density ( repetition rate ) of lexical items, and different degrees of cohesion, in the short story and in the novel.
    • It is not surprising that this is a very common structure in language, because it allows the flexibility that was identified earlier in this paper as essential for an adequate lexical item.
    • A lexical item, or lexeme, is a dictionary word, an item which you would expect to find having its own entry in a dictionary.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lexical item. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA