Linguistic Unit (Noun)

Meaning

One of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed.

Classification

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.

Synonyms

• Language Unit

Hypernyms

• Component
• Part
• Constituent
• Component Part

Hyponyms

• Syllable
• Morpheme
• Collocation
• Phone
• Word
• Formative
• Name
• Discourse
• Sign
• Sound
• Lexeme