linguistic unit

noun

linguistic unit

noun
1

Any of a range of units of language, whether a word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, whole conversation or a story, morpheme, grapheme, phoneme and syllable.

Synonyms
linguistic unit, unit of language
Hypernyms
entity
Hyponyms
word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, conversation, story, discourse, morpheme, grapheme, phoneme, syllable
Holonyms
language

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