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lexical meaning

noun

  1. the meaning of a base morpheme.


lexical meaning

noun

  1. 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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Word History and Origins

Origin of lexical meaning1

First recorded in 1930–35

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