Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun linguistic_unit

1 sense of linguistic unit

Sense 1
language unit, linguistic unit -- (one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed)
       => part, portion, component part, component, constituent -- (something determined in relation to something that includes it; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton")