Lexeme vs. Lexicon — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Lexeme and Lexicon
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Definitions
Lexeme
A lexeme ( (listen)) is a unit of lexical meaning that underlies a set of words that are related through inflection. It is a basic abstract unit of meaning, a unit of morphological analysis in linguistics that roughly corresponds to a set of forms taken by a single root word.
Lexicon
A lexicon is the vocabulary of a language or branch of knowledge (such as nautical or medical). In linguistics, a lexicon is a language's inventory of lexemes.
Lexeme
The fundamental unit of the lexicon of a language. Find, finds, found, and finding are forms of the English lexeme find.
Lexicon
A dictionary.
Lexeme
(linguistics) A lexical item corresponding to the set of all words (or of all multi-word expressions) that are semantically related through inflection of a particular shared basic form.
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Lexicon
A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary
The lexicon of surrealist art.
Lexeme
(strictly) The abstract minimum unit of language or meaning that underlies such a set.
Lexicon
The vocabulary of an individual person
“A few of the women tittered, whether in response to the fluctuating octaves of my voice or the awkwardness of my lexicon” (Elisabeth Brink).
Lexeme
(loosely) The set itself; a lexemic family.
Lexicon
(Linguistics) The morphemes of a language considered as a group.
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Lexeme
(loosely) The word-form chosen to represent such a set or family.
Lexicon
The vocabulary of a language.
Lexeme
(computing) An individual instance of a continuous character sequence without spaces, used in lexical analysis (see token).
Lexicon
A dictionary that includes or focuses on lexemes.
Lexeme
A minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go'
Lexicon
A dictionary of Classical Greek, Hebrew, Latin, or Aramaic.
Lexicon
(programming) The lexicology of a programming language. (Usually called lexical structure.)
Lexicon
(rare) Any dictionary.
Lexicon
The vocabulary used by or known to an individual. (Also called lexical knowledge.)
Lexicon
A set of vocabulary specific to a certain subject.
The baseball lexicon
Lexicon
A list thereof.
A baseball lexicon
Lexicon
A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.
Lexicon
A language user's knowledge of words
Lexicon
A reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them