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Meaning of "meronym" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MERONYM

From Greek meros part + onuma name.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MERONYM

meronym  [ˈmɛrəʊˌnɪm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MERONYM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Meronym 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 MERONYM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Meronymy

Meronymy is a semantic relation used in linguistics. A meronym denotes a constituent part of, or a member of something. That is, “X” is a meronym of “Y” if Xs are parts of Y, or “X” is a meronym of “Y” if Xs are members of Y. For example, "finger" is a meronym of "hand" because a finger is part of a hand. Similarly, "wheels" is a meronym of "automobile". Meronymy is the opposite of holonymy. A closely related concept is that of mereology, which specifically deals with part/whole relations and is used in logic. It is formally expressed in terms of first-order logic. A meronymy can also be considered a partial order. A meronym means part of a whole. A word denoting a subset of what another word denotes is a hyponym. In knowledge representation languages, meronymy is often expressed as "part-of".

Definition of meronym in the English dictionary

The definition of meronym in the dictionary is a part of something used to refer to the whole, such as faces meaning people, as in they've seen a lot of faces come and go.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MERONYM


autonym
ˈɔːtəˌnɪm
caconym
ˈkækəˌnɪm
eponym
ˈɛpəˌnɪm
ethnonym
ˈeθnəˌnɪm
exonym
ˈɛksəˌnɪm
heteronym
ˈhɛtərəʊˌnɪm
hypernym
ˈhaɪpəˌnɪm
mononym
ˈmɒnəʊˌnɪm
paranym
ˈpærəˌnɪm
pseudonym
ˈsjuːdəˌnɪm
textonym
ˈtɛkstəˌnɪm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MERONYM

meroblastic
meroblastically
merocrine
merogeneses
merogenesis
merogenetic
merogony
meroistic
meromorphic
meromyosin
meronymy
meropia
meropic
meropidan
meroplankton
merosome
Merovingian
merozoite
merrie
merrier

WORDS THAT END LIKE MERONYM

allonym
anonym
antonym
cohyponym
cryptonym
homonym
hyponym
metonym
paronym
polyonym
retronym
synonym
tautonym
toponym

Synonyms and antonyms of meronym in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «meronym» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MERONYM

Find out the translation of meronym to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of meronym from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «meronym» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

meronym
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

merónimo
570 millions of speakers

English

meronym
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

meronym
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

meronym
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

meronym
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

meronym
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

meronym
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

méronyme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Merame
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

meronym
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

meronym
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

meronym
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Meron
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

meronym
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

meronym
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Meronym
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

meronym
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

meronym
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

meronym
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

meronym
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

meronym
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

meronym
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

meronym
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

meronym
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

meronym
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of meronym

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MERONYM»

The term «meronym» is normally little used and occupies the 127.906 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of meronym
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MERONYM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «meronym» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «meronym» 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 meronym

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MERONYM»

Discover the use of meronym in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to meronym and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database
Point, for example, is a meronym of arrow, awl, dagger, fishhook, harpoon, icepick, knife, needle, pencil, pin, sword, and tine, and handle has an even greater variety of holonyms. Since the points and handles involved are so different from one ...
Christiane Fellbaum, 1998
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Knowledge Based Computer Systems: International Conference ...
To express this ordering constraint, we introduce the notion of left co-meronym and right co-meronym:: det, 0 is the left co-meronym of n,l and n,l is the right co- meronym of det.O. Contrary to the taxonomic relation in Login, we cannot introduce ...
S. Ramani, R. Chandrasekar, K.S.R. Anjaneyulu, 1990
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Intelligent Automation and Computer Engineering
This is achieved by constructing a set of evidence phrases for a user query by considering ontological relations from WORD- NET such as meronym and holonym. Meronym and holonym refer to the part-whole relations of words [10]. Whereas ...
Sio-Iong Ao, Oscar Castillo, Dr. Xu Huang, 2010
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Ontology Learning for the Semantic Web
Y is a hypemym of x if x is a (kind of) Y. q Hyponym: the specific term used to designate a member of a class. x is a hyponym of Y if X is a (kind of) Y . q Holonym: the name of the whole of which the meronym names a part. Y is a holonym of X if ...
Alexander Maedche, 2002
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Lexical Semantics
We shall speak in such cases of canonical necessity, and describe ear as a canonical meronym of body, and body as a canonical holonym of ear. A truly optional relationship, like that between door and handle, will be termed facultative: ...
D. A. Cruse, 1986
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Cognitive Linguistics
We might therefore relax the characterization to admit potential part-whole relations: (49) If A is a meronym of B in a particular context, then any member a of the extension of A either maps onto a specific member b of the extension of B of which ...
William Croft, D. A. Cruse, 2004
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The Practice of Enterprise Modeling: Third IFIP WG 8.1 ...
The holonym-meronym dependency is also known as aggregation and composition (see Fig. 1). For instance, using Order in schema one and OrderItem in schema two. In Fig. 6, comparison of concept names yields equivalent for the concept ...
Patrick van Bommel, Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Sietse Overbeek, 2010
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Games, Diversions & Perl Culture: Best of the Perl Journal
The Wordnet databases specify three types of meronym relationships: • Part meronym: a “tire” is a part of a “car” • Member meronym: a “car” is a member of a “ traffic jam” • Substance (stuff) meronym: a “wheel” is made from “rubber” ...
Jon Orwant, 2003
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Semantics
Meronymic hierarchies are less clear-cut and regular than taxonomies. Meronyms vary for example in how necessary the part is to the whole. Some are necessary for normal examples, such as nose as a meronym of face; others are usual but ...
John I. Saeed, 2011
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Semantic Relations and the Lexicon: Antonymy, Synonymy and ...
In most instances, meronym relations do not exhibit the kinds of idiosyncrasies that would indicate that some instantiations of the relation are lexical, not just semantic, relations. Issues of linguistic form rarely come into play in making ...
M. Lynne Murphy, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MERONYM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term meronym is used in the context of the following news items.
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'The Blank Screen Is the Enemy': The Millions Interviews David …
I'm going to do a book mostly about Marinus in the future, about what happens once she gets to Iceland, and to link that to Meronym, who's a ... «The Millions, Oct 14»
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Top 6 Halle Berry Movies
Berry took on six different roles in the film from journalist Luisa Rey to futuristic woman Meronym. Cloud Atlas is a sprawling film that looks ... «FemaleFirst.co.uk, Sep 13»
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'Cloud Atlas' Is an Ecstatic Exploration of Humanity
We see similar development in the storyline of Luisa Rey as she slowly progresses into the skin of Meronym (Halle Berry), struggling all the way ... «PopMatters, May 13»
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Richard J. Leskosky: Multiple roles nothing new in film
Tom Hanks as Zachry and Halle Berry as Meronym in a scene from "Cloud Atlas." Image. 20130412-142142-pic-50566782.jpg. The cinema ... «Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette, Apr 13»
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Six Stories, Three Filmmakers, One Vision: The Making of Cloud Atlas
“Worth mentioning are those where Meronym [Halle Berry] and Zachry [Tom Hanks] climb up a mountain in order to scout out an abandoned ... «Flickering Myth, Feb 13»
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Movie review: Cloud Atlas (15)
... as a fabricant here) and her coming together with rebel Hae-Joo Chang (Sturgess) as well as Zachry (Hanks) meeting Meronym (Berry). «Scottish Daily Record, Feb 13»
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Time to say goodbye to your characters
... into a film-shaped container: the love interest between the (now) middle-aged Zachry and Meronym on post-apocalyptic Hawaii, for example, ... «The Independent, Jan 13»
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Culture and arts: what to see in February 2013
Tom Hanks as Zachry and Halle Berry as Meronym in a scene from Cloud Atlas Photo: AP. By Rupert Christiansen, Robbie Collin, Felicity ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 13»
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Best of 2012 (Behind the Scenes): How Halle Berry was transformed …
In 2346, she plays Meronym, a beautifully futuristic emissary on post-apocalyptic Earth clothed in a body suit and hailing from an advanced ... «Entertainment Weekly, Nov 12»
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Movie review: Cloud Atlas - each piece a masterpiece
Meronym is in search of Cloud Atlas, a communication station that will enable her to send a help signal. But Zachry's people refuse to help ... «The Express Tribune, Nov 12»

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