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Bound form Moderate

Bound form has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns

2

a unit of language that can only be used as part of a word, not as a word on its own (such as the English suffix -ly).

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
morpheme
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
combining form affix
Rhyming Words
orm corm worm form norm gorm dorm feorm storm enorm reform e form afform byform efform v form unform urform enform deworm
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