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lexical item en · NOUN

Etymology

From lexical + item.

Meanings

1. A term (that is, a word or sequence of words) that acts as a unit of meaning, including words, phrases, phrasal verbs, and proverbs.
   • A lexical item, or lexeme, is a dictionary word, an item which you would expect to find having its own entry in a dictionary. 1999, Robert Lawrence Trask, Key Concepts in Language and Linguistics, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 228:
   • The meaning of lexical items may be described in terms of combinations of semantic features. 2007, Kristel Proost ·, Conceptual Structure in Lexical Items, page 114:
   • Thus there are 3751 lexical items covered in total. Taking into account polysemy, there are 4315 separate senses. 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 490:
   • It is not surprising that this is a very common structure in language, because it allows the flexibility that was identified earlier in this paper as essential for an adequate lexical item. 1998, Edda Weigand, Contrastive Lexical Semantics, page 22:
   • He also realized that by comparing different types of text you may be able to spot "a different density ( repetition rate ) of lexical items, and different degrees of cohesion, in the short story and in the novel. 1993, Roman Kopytko, Polite Discourse in Shakespeare's English, page 396:

Forms

Relateds

lexicon · lexicalize · lexeme · lexis · lexical unit

Translations (14)

cmn 詞項 /词项 (term that acts as a unit of meaning) · ga aonad léacsach (term that acts as a unit of meaning) · pl jednostka leksykalna (term that acts as a unit of meaning) · de Wortschatzeinheit (term that acts as a unit of meaning) · de lexikalische Einheit (term that acts as a unit of meaning) · fi leksikaalinen yksikkö (term that acts as a unit of meaning) · nl lexicale eenheid (term that acts as a unit of meaning) · ru лекси́ческая едини́ца (term that acts as a unit of meaning) · vi đơn vị từ vựng (term that acts as a unit of meaning) · fr lexie (term that acts as a unit of meaning) · ja 語彙項目 (term that acts as a unit of meaning) · ga mír fhoclóireachta (term that acts as a unit of meaning) · ru лекси́ческий элеме́нт (term that acts as a unit of meaning) · cs lexikální jednotka (term that acts as a unit of meaning)