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Meronym Definition

meronym

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English

Etymology

mero- + -onym, from Ancient Greek μέρος (meros, “part”) + ὄνομα (onoma, “name”).

Noun

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Wikipedia meronym (plural meronyms)

  1. (semantics) A term that denotes a part of the whole that is denoted by another term.
    The word "arm" is a meronym of the word "body".
    • 1998, George A. Miller, “Nouns in WordNet”, in Christiane Fellbaum (editor), Wordnet: An Electronic Lexical Database,[1] MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-06197-X, page 38,
      If one starts with some complex whole, like {automobile} or {human_body}, it can be broken down into several levels of meronyms, but many of those meronyms will also be meronyms of other wholes. That is to say, some components serve as parts of many different things: think of all the different mechanisms that have gears.

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Derived terms

Holonyms

See also

Swedish

Noun

meronym c.

  1. (semantics) meronym

Declension

Declension of meronym
singular plural
Common indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative meronym meronymen meronymer meronymerna
genitive meronyms meronymens meronymers meronymernas

 

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