HyperDic: bound_form

English > 1 sense of the expression *bound form*:
NOUN	communication	bound form, bound morpheme	a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger / larger construction

English > *bound form*: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
Meaning	A morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger / larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns.
Synonym	bound morpheme
Narrower	affix	A linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form
Narrower	combining form	A bound form used only in compounds
Broader	morpheme	minimal meaningful language unit