linguistic unit

English

Noun

linguistic unit (plural linguistic units)

1. Any of a range of units of language, whether a word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, whole conversation or a story, morpheme, grapheme, phoneme and syllable.

   Synonym: unit of language

   Hyponyms: see Thesaurus:linguistic unit

Translations

any of range of units of language

• Czech: jazyková jednotka f
• German: Spracheinheit f

Further reading

• Wikidata:linguistic unit
• “linguistic unit”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.