WordNet 3.0 Vocabulary Helper: hyponym

• Overview of noun hyponym
• Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hyponym
• Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun hyponym
• Meronyms of noun hyponym

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The noun hyponym has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)

• 1. hyponym, subordinate, subordinate word -- (a word that is more specific than a given word)

Sense 1

• 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'' )

Sense 1

• 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'' )
• anagram -- (a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase)
• anaphor -- (a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent)
• antonym, opposite word, opposite -- (a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; ``to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed''' )
• back-formation -- (a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it)
• charade -- (a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades)
• cognate, cognate word -- (a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language)
• content word, open-class word -- (a word to which an independent meaning can be assigned)
• contraction -- (a word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds; ```won't' is a contraction of `will not'"; "`o'clock' is a contraction of `of the clock''' )
• deictic, deictic word -- (a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs; ``words that introduce particulars of the speaker's and hearer's shared cognitive field into the message'' - R.Rommetveit)
• derivative -- ((linguistics) a word that is derived from another word; ```electricity' is a derivative of `electric''' )
• diminutive -- (a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness)
• dirty word -- (a word that is considered to be unmentionable; ```failure' is a dirty word to him'' )
• disyllable, dissyllable -- (a word having two syllables)
• form, word form, signifier, descriptor -- (the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; ``the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached'' )
• four-letter word, four-letter Anglo-Saxon word -- (any of several short English words (often having 4 letters) generally regarded as obscene or offensive)
• function word, closed-class word -- (a word that is uninflected and serves a grammatical function but has little identifiable meaning)
• guide word, guideword, catchword -- (a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page)
• head, head word -- ((grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent)
• headword -- (a word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry))
• heteronym -- (two words are heteronyms if they are spelled the same way but differ in pronunciation; ``the word `bow' is an example of a heteronym'' )
• holonym, whole name -- (a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part; ```hat' is a holonym for `brim' and `crown''' )
• homonym -- (two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings)
• hypernym, superordinate, superordinate word -- (a word that is more generic than a given word)
• hyponym, subordinate, subordinate word -- (a word that is more specific than a given word)
• key word -- (a significant word used in indexing or cataloging)
• loanblend, loan-blend, hybrid -- (a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root))
• loanword, loan -- (a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English)
• meronym, part name -- (a word that names a part of a larger whole; ```brim' and `crown' are meronyms of `hat''' )
• metonym -- (a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing; ``Washington is a metonym for the United States government"; "plastic is a metonym for credit card'' )
• monosyllable, monosyllabic word -- (a word or utterance of one syllable)
• neologism, neology, coinage -- (a newly invented word or phrase)
• nonce word, hapax legomenon -- (a word with a special meaning used for a special occasion)
• oxytone -- (word having stress or an acute accent on the last syllable)
• palindrome -- (a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward)
• primitive -- (a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; ```pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived'' )
• paroxytone -- (word having stress or acute accent on the next to last syllable)
• partitive -- (word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole)
• polysemant, polysemantic word, polysemous word -- (a word having more than one meaning)
• polysyllable, polysyllabic word -- (a word of more than three syllables)
• proparoxytone -- (word having stress or acute accent on the antepenult)
• quantifier -- ((grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as `fifteen' or `many'))
• quantifier, logical quantifier -- ((logic) a word (such as `some' or `all' or `no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition)
• reduplication -- (a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word))
• retronym -- (a word introduced because an existing term has become inadequate; ``Nobody ever heard of analog clocks until digital clocks became common, so `analog clock' is a retronym'' )
• substantive -- (any word or group of words functioning as a noun)
• synonym, equivalent word -- (two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context)
• term -- (a word or expression used for some particular thing; ``he learned many medical terms'' )
• terminology, nomenclature, language -- (a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; ``legal terminology"; "biological nomenclature"; "the language of sociology'' )
• trisyllable -- (a word having three syllables)
• troponym, manner name -- (a word that denotes a manner of doing something; ```march' is a troponym of `walk''' )
• vocable, spoken word -- (a word that is spoken aloud)
• classifier -- (a word or morpheme used in some languages in certain contexts (such as counting) to indicate the semantic class to which the counted item belongs)
• written word -- (the written form of a word; ``while the spoken word stands for something, the written word stands for something that stands for something"; "a craftsman of the written word'' )
• syncategorem, syncategoreme -- (a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition; ``logical quantifiers, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions are called syncategoremes'' )

Sense 1

• 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'' )
  HAS PART: syllable -- (a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; ``the word `pocket' has two syllables'' )
  HAS PART: affix -- (a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form)

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