linguistic unit

Noun
  1. One of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed (synset 106294878)
    is a type of: component, component part, constituent, part, portion - something determined in relation to something that includes it
    subtypes:
    • discourse - extended verbal expression in speech or writing
    • word - a unit of language that native speakers can identify
    • syllable - a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme
    • lexeme - a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go'
    • morpheme - minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units
    • formative - minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function
    • name - a language unit by which a person or thing is known
    • collocation - a grouping of words in a sentence
    • phone, sound, speech sound - (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
    • sign - a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified
    is a part of: string - a linear sequence (as of characters, words, proteins, etc.)
    same as: language unit

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