taxeme

UK:**UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈtæksiːm/US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(tak′sēm)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
tax•eme  (tak′sēm),USA pronunciation n. [Ling.]
  1. Linguisticsa feature of the arrangement of elements in a construction, as selection, order, phonetic modification, or modulation.
  • tax- + -eme 1930–35
tax•e′mic, adj. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
taxeme /ˈtæksiːm/ n
  1. any element of speech that may differentiate one utterance from another with a different meaning, such as the occurrence of a particular phoneme, the presence of a certain intonation, or a distinctive word order
Etymology: 20th Century: from Greek taxis order, arrangement + -emetaxˈemic adj
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