free morpheme

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free morpheme (plural free morphemes)

  1. (linguistic morphology) A morpheme that can carry meaning on its own, and does not require a prefix, suffix, or infix to give it meaning.
    Book is a free morpheme, but the -s on books is not, because -s carries no meaning until joined to a free morpheme.

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