sememe
/ˈsɛmiːm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The smallest unit of meaning; especially, the meaning expressed by a morpheme.
Example Sentences
- "Any given word of a natural language in its shared acceptations represents a seme, sememe, or set of sememes, but the profile that we can compile as representing the shared elements in a list of synonymous and parasynonymous words is an artificial construct, an instance of meta-language, thus called a constructed sememe."
- "Since sememes are enhanced in the sememe network (as shown in Fig. 3), both a topic and an article analysis can rely on the sememe network instead of explicit term matching."
- "HowNet organizes all the sememes into several trees, and each sememe is considered a node of a tree."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: σημαίνω