Glossem — meaning in English
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English meaning
- gloss noun A shiny, polished surface.
Senses
Glossem is used for these senses in English:
- gloss (countable) A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.
- glosseme The smallest irreducible unit of both the content and expression planes of language; the basic unit of language in the theory of glossematics.
gloss — full definition
- noun A shiny, polished surface.
- noun An impressive appearance that hides something less impressive underneath.
- verb (usually "gloss over") To skim past or downplay a problem instead of properly addressing it.
- noun A brief note explaining a difficult or foreign word, often placed in the margin or between the lines of a text.