Home › Words › G › glossemeglossemeglosseme means the smallest irreducible unit of both the content and expression planes of language; the basic unit of language in the theory of glossematics.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, glosseme ranks #13,713 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom gloss- + -eme, coined by Louis Hjelmslev and Hans Jørgen Uldall in the 1930s.nounThe smallest irreducible unit of both the content and expression planes of language; the basic unit of language in the theory of glossematics.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.glossematics 78% match — A structuralist linguistic theory that defines the glosseme as the most basic unit of language. vs glosseme →glossematic 69% match — Relating to glossematics. vs glosseme →lingueme 63% match — Any unit of linguistic structure, such as a phoneme, a morpheme, or a whole phrase. vs glosseme →grammeme 59% match — A unit of grammar. vs glosseme →sememe 57% match — The smallest unit of meaning; especially, the meaning expressed by a morpheme. vs glosseme →glossonym 57% match — The name of a language. vs glosseme →lexeme 55% match — 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.; The abstract minimum unit of language or meaning that underlies such a set. vs glosseme →termineme 54% match — The smallest unbreakable element of the study of terminology. vs glosseme →