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Meaning of "hyponym" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HYPONYM

From hypo- + Greek onoma name.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HYPONYM

hyponym  [ˈhaɪpəʊnɪm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HYPONYM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hyponym is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HYPONYM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hyponymy and hypernymy

In linguistics, a hyponym is a word or phrase whose semantic field is included within that of another word, its hypernym. In simpler terms, a hyponym shares a type-of relationship with its hypernym. For example, "pigeon", "crow", "eagle" and "seagull" are all hyponyms of "bird"; which, in turn, is a hyponym of "animal".

Definition of hyponym in the English dictionary

The definition of hyponym in the dictionary is a word whose meaning is included in that of another word.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HYPONYM


acronym
ˈækrənɪm
anonym
ˈænənɪm
antonym
ˈæntənɪm
Blenheim
ˈblɛnɪm
cohyponym
ˌkəʊˈhaɪpəʊnɪm
denim
ˈdɛnɪm
eponym
ˈɛpəˌnɪm
ethnonym
ˈeθnəˌnɪm
exonym
ˈɛksəˌnɪm
homonym
ˈhɒmənɪm
hypernym
ˈhaɪpəˌnɪm
meronym
ˈmɛrəʊˌnɪm
metonym
ˈmɛtənɪm
minim
ˈmɪnɪm
mononym
ˈmɒnəʊˌnɪm
nim
nɪm
panim
ˈpeɪnɪm
pseudonym
ˈsjuːdəˌnɪm
synonym
ˈsɪnənɪm
toponym
ˈtɒpənɪm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HYPONYM

hypomorph
hypomorphic
hyponastic
hyponastically
hyponasty
hyponatraemia
hyponitrite
hyponitrous
hyponitrous acid
hyponoia
hyponymy
hypopharynges
hypopharynx
hypophosphate
hypophosphite
hypophosphoric
hypophosphoric acid
hypophosphorous
hypophosphorous acid
hypophrygian

WORDS THAT END LIKE HYPONYM

allonym
azym
caconym
cryptonym
Dafydd ap Gwilym
gym
heteronym
jungle gym
Krym
multigym
paranym
paronym
polyonym
Pym
retronym
tautonym
textonym

Synonyms and antonyms of hyponym in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hyponym» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HYPONYM

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The translations of hyponym from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hyponym» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

下义词
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hyponym
570 millions of speakers

English

hyponym
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hyponym
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

hyponym
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

hyponym
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hyponym
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

hyponym
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hyponyme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hipotesis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hyponym
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

下位語
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

에 hyponym
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hipotesis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hyponym
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குறிப்பிட்ட பிரிவுகளை அடிப்படையாகக் கொள்ளாமல் கொடுக்கப்படும் பொதுப்படையான பெயர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निनावी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hyponym
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

hyponym
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hyponym
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

hyponym
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hyponym
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

hyponym
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hyponym
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hyponym
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hyponym
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hyponym

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HYPONYM»

The term «hyponym» is regularly used and occupies the 75.251 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HYPONYM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hyponym» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hyponym» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hyponym

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPONYM»

Discover the use of hyponym in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hyponym and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Semantics::
For example, 'crimson' is established as a hyponym of 'red' and 'buy' as a hyponym of 'get' by virtue of the implications "She was wearing a crimson dress" - > "She was wearing a red dress", "I bought it from a friend "-> "I got it from a friend " (i.e. ...
John Lyons, 1977
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Solving Language Problems: From General to Applied Linguistics
The word aircraft is defined as a hyponym of vehicle and helicopter is defined as a hyponym of aircraft. The word aircraft is a hyponym of vehicle but a superordinate of helicopter. This hyponymy coincides with semantic transitivity: if X is a ...
R. R. K. Hartmann, 1996
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The Language of Word Meaning
examples then show the result when we combine the different kind of labeling and directions of relations that have been discussed: • animate being HAS_HYPONYM plant; disjunctive HAS-HYPONYM person; disjunctive HAS_HYPONYM ...
Pierrette Bouillon, Federica Busa, 2001
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Introducing English Semantics
The term collie is a hyponym of dog and tulip is a hyponym of flower; dog and flower are, respectively, the superordinates of collie and tulip. (Some seman- ticists use the term 'hyperonym' instead of 'superordinate.') We can also say 'A collie is ...
Charles W. Kreidler, 1998
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Folk-taxonomies in Early English
Aulus Gellius, in his account of the semantic range of ruber, does not mention purpura, although he does include ostium 'purple' as a hyponym of ruber ( Noctium Atticarum 2.26.8); in Old English glosses, ostium is translated as purpure .13 ...
Earl R. Anderson, 2003
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Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering ...
Sample of tuples of the table of hyponym-hypernym pairs is transformed to its singular form if necessary, and it is assigned to the entry of the corresponding instance as its hypernym. Finally, both elements (hyponym and hypernym) are stored ...
Juan D. Velásquez, Sebastián A. Ríos, Robert J. Howlett, 2009
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Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning
word is called a hyponym and the more general word is the superordinate which may also be referred to as a hyperonym or hypernym, although the latter is dispreferred as in nonrhotic dialects of English it is homophonic with hyponym. Where ...
Claudia Maienborn, Klaus von Heusinger, Paul Portner, 2011
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Word Meaning
For example, 'bicycle' is a hyponym of 'vehicle', but 'bicycle' is only one of the senses of cycle (alongside e.g. the cycle of the seasons), so we can't say that cycle is a hyponym of vehicle. Hyponym chains, then, are chains of word-senses, not ...
Richard Hudson, 2003
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Semantic Multimedia: Third International Conference on ...
hyponym/hypernym hierarchy, decreases semantic similarity significantly [7,5]. For example, wa hypernym of w b hyponym of wc is not included. 3.2 Newly Inferred Relations A total of 1039 pairs of GTAA terms was newly related: 404 with one ...
David Duke, Lynda Hardman, Alex Hauptmann, 2008
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Progress in WWW Research and Development: 10th Asia-Pacific ...
Extracting of typical properties of each concept Our method has to obtain the property vector of each concept c (a target concept x ∈ C or its hyponym candidate y ∈ C(x)), P(c). The weight of each pair of a property p ∈ P and a concept c,has(p ...
Yanchun Zhang, Ge Yu, Elisa Bertino, 2008

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HYPONYM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hyponym is used in the context of the following news items.
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Between Two Flags
In fact, racism is a hyponym of xenophobia, whose subsets can be traced in every element of human relations, from welcoming new classmates ... «Jewish Journal, Jul 15»
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Mitch Hedberg Compilation Part 1
... Polysemy, Monosemy, Capitonym, Paronym, Hyponym and Meronym etc--each term attributed multiple interpretation steming from the noun, ... «YouTube, Nov 09»
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Garry Kasparov launches – a new search engine
Hyponyms: A word that has a more specific meaning than another; e.g. in the relationship between chair and furniture, chair is a hyponym; ... «Chessbase News, Mar 06»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Hyponym [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/hyponym>. May 2024 ».
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