Sememe

//ˈsɛmiːm//

Synonyms for "sememe" (10 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (2)

Strong matches (3)

Related words (5)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

Related terms

3 entries

derived

4 entries

derived from

1 entries

has context

1 entries

related to

7 entries

Translations

13 translations across 12 languages.

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Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 義位 /义位 noun (smallest unit of linguistical meaning)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • sememo noun (smallest unit of linguistical meaning)

Finnish

1 entries
  • semeemi noun (smallest unit of linguistical meaning)

French

1 entries
  • sémème noun (smallest unit of linguistical meaning)

German

1 entries
  • Semem noun (smallest unit of linguistical meaning)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • szeméma noun (smallest unit of linguistical meaning)

Italian

1 entries
  • semema noun (smallest unit of linguistical meaning)

Polish

1 entries
  • semem noun (smallest unit of linguistical meaning)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • semema noun (smallest unit of linguistical meaning)

Russian

2 entries
  • семанте́ма noun (smallest unit of linguistical meaning)
  • семе́ма noun (smallest unit of linguistical meaning)

Spanish

1 entries
  • semema noun (smallest unit of linguistical meaning)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • nghĩa vị noun (smallest unit of linguistical meaning)

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Any given word of a natural language in its shared acceptations represents a seme, sememe, or set of sememes, but the profile that we can compile as representing the shared elements in a list of synonymous and parasynonymous words is an artificial construct, an instance of meta-language, thus called a constructed sememe.

Source: wiktionary

Since sememes are enhanced in the sememe network (as shown in Fig. 3), both a topic and an article analysis can rely on the sememe network instead of explicit term matching.

Source: wiktionary

HowNet organizes all the sememes into several trees, and each sememe is considered a node of a tree.

Source: wiktionary

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.