meronym
English edit
Etymology edit
From mero- + -onym, from Ancient Greek μέρος (méros, “part”) + ὄνυμα (ónuma, “name”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
meronym (plural meronyms)
- (semantics) A term used to denote a thing that is a part of something else.
- 1998, George A. Miller, “Nouns in WordNet”, in Christiane Fellbaum, editor, Wordnet: An Electronic Lexical Database[1], MIT Press, →ISBN, page 38:
- If one starts with some complex whole, like {automobile} or {human_body}, it can be broken down into several levels of meronyms, but many of those meronyms will also be meronyms of other wholes. That is to say, some components serve as parts of many different things: think of all the different mechanisms that have gears.
Holonyms edit
Coordinate terms edit
- hypernym
- hyponym
- metonym (but be aware that some metonyms derive from meronyms; for example, wheels/automobile, jet/jet airplane, head/cow)
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
word denoting part of whole
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Swedish edit
Noun edit
meronym c
Declension edit
Declension of meronym | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | meronym | meronymen | meronymer | meronymerna |
Genitive | meronyms | meronymens | meronymers | meronymernas |