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Meaning of "meronymy" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF MERONYMY

mɛrˈɒnɪmɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MERONYMY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Meronymy 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 MERONYMY 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 meronymy in the English dictionary

The definition of meronymy in the dictionary is the semantic relationship between a meronym, or a part of something, and its whole.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MERONYMY

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

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MERONYMY

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE MERONYMY

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

Synonyms and antonyms of meronymy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «meronymy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MERONYMY

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

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

Translator English - Chinese

meronymy
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

meronimia
570 millions of speakers
en

English

meronymy
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

meronymy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

meronymy
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

meronymy
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

meronímia
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

meronymy
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

méronymie
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Meronymy
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Meronymie
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

meronymy
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

meronymy
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Meronymy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

meronymy
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

meronymy
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

मेनोनीमी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

meronymy
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

meronimia
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

meronymy
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

meronymy
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

meronimie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

meronymy
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

meronymy
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

meronymy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

meronymy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of meronymy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MERONYMY»

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MERONYMY»

Discover the use of meronymy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to meronymy 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
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Introductory Semantics and Pragmatics for Spanish Learners ...
However, the relationship of meronymy is a part-whole concept: if X is a meronym of Y, X is part of Y, and Y is a holonym of X. Therefore, elbow is a meronym of arm ,andarm is a holonym of elbow. As further examples, note that wheel is a ...
Brian Leonard Mott, 2009
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Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 15th ...
Extracting Meronymy Relationships from Domain-Specific, Textual Corporate Databases Ashwin Ittoo, Gosse Bouma, Laura Maruster, and Hans Wortmann University of Groningen 9747 AE Groningen, The Netherlands {r.a.ittoo,g.bouma  ...
Christina J Hopfe, Yacine Rezgui, Elisabeth Métais, 2010
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WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database
Such a concept lattice would therefore provide an embedding of meronymy, but not all concepts would have useful interpretations. A better solution is therefore to use part- whole relations as attributes, such as HAS-HANDLE-AS-PART, which ...
Christiane Fellbaum, 1998
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Conceptual Modeling – ER 2010: 29th International Conference ...
Example meronymy tree t1 Definition 1 (Process Model). A tuple PM = (A,G,E) is a process model, where: – A ⊆ A is the finite nonempty set of process model activities – G is the finite set of gateways – A∩G = ∅ – N = A ∪ G is a finite set of  ...
Jeffrey Parsons, Motoshi Saeki, Peretz Shoval, 2010
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EuroWordNet: A multilingual database with lexical semantic ...
PART-WHOLE Relations Part-whole (or meronymy) relations form a complex family of relations (Winston et al., 1987; Vossen and Copestake, 1993; Vossen, 1995). Whereas in the WN1.5 database three kinds of meronymy relations are ...
Piek Vossen, 1998
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The Handbook of Linguistics
The part–whole relation, in its lexical aspect, is called meronymy (sometimes partonymy); for instance, finger is a meronym of hand, and hand is the immediate holonym of finger. The notion of meronymy, like hyponymy, is relational rather than ...
Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller, 2008
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Cognitive Linguistics
6.2.2 Meronymy Like every other sense relation, meronymy is viewed here as a relation between contextually construed meanings (or more precisely, by pre- meanings created by boundary construal). However, the relationship is less ...
William Croft, D. A. Cruse, 2004
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Lexical Semantics
^co-meronymy to the relation between lexical items designating sister parts. Although there is an intimate connection between an extra-linguistic part-whole hierarchy and the corresponding lexical hierarchy, the two are nonetheless distinct, ...
D. A. Cruse, 1986
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Constraints in Discourse 3: Representing and Inferring ...
[The sun EDU7 repetition(sunEDU6),hyponymy (starEDU5),co—mer0nymy( EarthEDU3),co—hyponymy (ProximaCentauriEDU4),meronymy (solar system EDU5),hyponymy (dwarf starEDUS) ls about five bllhon yearsrepetitionwear old now] ...
Anton Benz, Manfred Stede, Peter Kühnlein, 2012

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MERONYMY»

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Svonk is owned by Meronymy; the company was founded by Inge Henriksen in 2005 and is based out of Oslo, Norway. ###. Share on Twitter ... «PR Web, Sep 09»
REFERENCE
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