The multiword expressions equivalent to a compound noun in bilingual Lithuanian-Spanish/French/English dictionaries

The linguistic terms noun compound, locution, non-standard collocation and termeme corre- spond to different concepts, but in bilingual lexicography and in translation their treatment is simpler, because they designate lexical units that have mostly their ful equivalent in other lan- guages. These units appear in dictionaries as lemmas, subentries or examples with their equiva- lents. In this article, we lay dawn the differences between these concepts and their confluence in the generic term noun compound. A corpus of compounds from Lithuanian and their equivalents in Spanish, French and English (extracted from bilingual dictionaries) is analysed, which shows that their lexical structure in many cases is parallel; the semes forming their meaning can be traced in the components of the lexical unit