Meaning & use
Semes
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In linguistics, the smallest units of meaning that distinguish one sense of a word from another.
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Linguists broke the word's meaning down into a set of component semes.
The theory holds that every lexical meaning can be described as a bundle of semes.
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A key concept in structural semantics, where a word's meaning is analyzed as a combination of minimal semantic features.
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