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Meaning of "hyponymy" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF HYPONYMY

haɪˈpɒnɪmɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HYPONYMY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hyponymy 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 HYPONYMY 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 hyponymy in the English dictionary

The definition of hyponymy in the dictionary is a relationship between words in which the meaning of a specific one is included in that of another more general one.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HYPONYMY

antonymy · archenemy · caconymy · eponymy · homonymy · hypernymy · meronymy · metonymy · paronymy · polyonymy · synonymy · tautonymy · teknonymy · toponymy

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HYPONYMY

hypomorphic · hyponastic · hyponastically · hyponasty · hyponatraemia · hyponitrite · hyponitrous · hyponitrous acid · hyponoia · hyponym · hypopharynges · hypopharynx · hypophosphate · hypophosphite · hypophosphoric · hypophosphoric acid · hypophosphorous · hypophosphorous acid · hypophrygian · hypophyge

WORDS THAT END LIKE HYPONYMY

academy · anatomy · army · astronomy · creamy · domy · dummy · economy · Emmy · enemy · filmy · Grammy · mommy · my · stymy · tammy · taxonomy · thymy · tommy · yummy

Synonyms and antonyms of hyponymy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hyponymy» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF HYPONYMY

Find out the translation of hyponymy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

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

Translator English - Chinese

上下位
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

hiponimia
570 millions of speakers
en

English

hyponymy
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

hyponymy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

hyponymy
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

hyponymy
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

hiponímia
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

hyponymy
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

hyponymie
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Hyponymy
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

hyponymy
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

上位下位
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

하위 hyponymy
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Hyponymy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hyponymy
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

hyponymy
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

हायपोपोनी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

hyponymy
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

hyponymy
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

hiponimia
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

hyponymy
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

hiponimie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

hyponymy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hyponymy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hyponymy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hyponymy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hyponymy

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HYPONYMY»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of hyponymy
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hyponymy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPONYMY»

Discover the use of hyponymy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hyponymy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hyponymy and meronymy
Everyday we are confronted with lexical hierarchies in our correspondences, without actually thinking about it.
Silvia Nulle, 2005
2
Semantics::
Hyponymy is definable in terms of unilateral implication. 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 ...
John Lyons, 1977
3
The Semantics of Relationships: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
D. Alan Cruse Department of Linguistics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Abstract: This chapter deals with the paradigmatic sense relation of hyponymy as manifested in nouns. A number of approaches to the definition of the relation ...
Rebecca Green, Carol A. Bean, Sung Hyon Myaeng, 2002
4
Active Media Technology: 5th International Conference, AMT ...
A Verification Method of Hyponymy between Chinese Terms Based on Concept Space Lei Liu1, Sen Zhang1, Lu Hong Diao1, Shu Ying Yan2, and Cun Gen Cao2 1 College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology 2 Institute of ...
Jiming Liu, Jinglong Wu, Yiyu Y. Yao, 2009
5
Cognitive Linguistics
Secondly, entailment between F(X) and F( Y) does not guarantee hyponymy (The wasp stung John on the knee entails The wasp stung John on the leg - knee is not a hyponym of leg.) However, there is no reason in principle why these ...
William Croft, D. A. Cruse, 2004
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KI 2008: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 31st Annual ...
Extracting and Verifying Hyponymy Relations Based on Multiple Patterns and Features Lei Liu1, Sen Zhang1, Lu Hong Diao1, Shu Ying Yan2, and Cun Gen Cao2 1 College of Applied Sciences, Beijing University of Technology { liuliu_leilei ...
Andreas Dengel, Karsten Berns, Frank Bomarius, 2008
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Knowledge-based Intelligent Information and Engineering ...
Hyponymy is used to build a taxonomic hierarchy. But the terms in hyponymy may have multiple senses. It will cause the problem of polysemy and affect the building of taxonomic hierarchy. In order to solve the problem, we present a method of ...
Ignac Lovrek, Robert J. Howlett, L. C. Jain, 2008
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Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence: ...
During the creation of multilingual semantic ontology, the hyponymy pattern is represented as a pair of a meaning frame defining the necessary information, which can used to calculate the similarity between words. The purpose of multilingual ...
Hepu Deng, Duoqian Miao, Jingsheng Lei, 2011
9
Language: Its Structure and Use
Hyponymy. Consider again this set of unmarked color terms: blue, red, yellow, green, black, purple. What they have in common is that they refer to colors. We say that the terms blue, red, yellow, green, black, and purple are hyponyms of the  ...
Edward Finegan, 2011
10
Translation, Linguistics, Culture: A French-English Handbook
When we consider the lexical relation of hyponymy, we are once again in the domain governed by Sapir-Whorf where translation problems are concerned. Hyponymy is the lexical relation of dominance or inclusion: an umbrella term, ...
Nigel Armstrong, 2005
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Hyponymy [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/hyponymy>. May 2024 ».
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