lexical item
Noun
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Noun
lexical item (plural lexical items)
- (semantics) A term—word or a sequence of words—that acts as a unit of meaning, including words, phrases, phrasal verbs and proverbs, exemplified by "cat", "traffic light", "take care of", "by-the-way", and "don't count your chickens before they hatch".
- lexical unit
- French: lexie
- German: lexikalische Einheit
- Russian: лекси́ческая едини́ца
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