S: (n) discourse (extended verbal expression in speech or writing)
S: (n) word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify) "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"
S: (n) syllable (a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme) "the word `pocket' has two syllables"
S: (n) lexeme (a minimal unit (as a word or stem) in the lexicon of a language; `go' and `went' and `gone' and `going' are all members of the English lexeme `go')
S: (n) morpheme (minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units)
S: (n) formative (minimal language unit that has a syntactic (or morphological) function)
S: (n) name (a language unit by which a person or thing is known) "his name really is George Washington"; "those are two names for the same thing"
S: (n) phone, speech sound, sound ((phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language)
S: (n) sign (a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified) "The bond between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary"--de Saussure
S: (n) 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"
S: (n) relation (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together)