CATEGOREME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does categoreme mean? 

• CATEGOREME (noun)
  The noun CATEGOREME has 1 sense:

1. a categorematic expression; a term capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition

  Familiarity information: CATEGOREME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATEGOREME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A categorematic expression; a term capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

categorem; categoreme

Context example:

names are called categorems

Hypernyms ("categoreme" is a kind of...):

term (one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition)

Antonym:

syncategoreme (a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition)

Derivation:

categorematic (of a term or phrase capable of standing as the subject or (especially) the predicate of a proposition)