monoseme
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A monosemous term; a term with one meaning.
noun
An underlying meaning of a word, more general than a sememe.
adj
Example Sentences
- "The foot pattern for the baby caprine song is: diseme/monoseme/diseme/diseme."
- "In a given poem, a monoseme contains a short vowel of one mora, and a diseme contains two moras."
- "But its primary meaning must be rhythmic, since it is not used to group notes longer than a monoseme […]"
- "Moreover, a word that is a monoseme in general language can be used equivocally in a special language."
- "As a dictionary search makes clear, preciously few ordinary words are monosemes, but they do exist: hippopotamus may be an example."
- "The simplest kind of word is a monoseme […] So many words develop additional meanings over time that it’s quite difficult to think of examples, but three possibilities are telephone, word-processor, giraffe – all fairly recent additions to the English vocabulary."