listeme

/ˈlɪstiːm/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Meaning

noun

"Idioms such as "red herring" are listemes, as are irregular forms such as "geese"."
"A memorized chunk is sometimes called a listeme, that is, an item that has to be memorized as part of a list; one can argue that this book ought to have been called Listemes and Rules."

From list + -eme.

listemes (plural)

lexical item set phrase

chereme chroneme expression grapheme idiom irregular lexeme lexical item

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How do you pronounce listeme?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈlɪstiːm/.

What does listeme mean?

Where does listeme come from?

From list + -eme.

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