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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

hyponymy en · NOUN

Etymology

From hypo- + -nymy or hyponym + -y.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The semantic relation between hyponyms; the quality of being hyponymous.
    • By isolating these two main types of relation, hyponymy and incompatibility, we can characterize the relations between a large web of items. 1977, Ruth Kempson, Semantic Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 86:

Forms

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Antonyms

hypernymy · hyperonymy

Deriveds

autohyponymy · cohyponymy

Translations (13)

sv hyponymi (Translations) · el υπωνυμία (Translations) · de Unterbegrifflichkeit (Translations) · it iponimia (Translations) · pt hiponímia (Translations) · pl hiponimia (Translations) · ca hiponímia (Translations) · ka ჰიპონიმია (Translations) · gl hiponimia (Translations) · fr hyponymie (Translations) · de Hyponymie (Translations) · ru гипонимия (Translations) · es hiponimia (Translations)