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Noun: bound form  bawnd form
  1. A morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; e.g. an ‘-s’ at the end of plural nouns
    "The '-ed' in 'walked' is a bound form indicating past tense";
    - bound morpheme

Derived forms: bound forms

Type of: morpheme

Encyclopedia: Bound form