Hyponym

/ˈhaɪ.poʊ.nɪm/

Synonyms for "hyponym" (24 found)

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Noun(7 words)
specific conceptsubclass termsubordinatesubordinate conceptsubordinate termsubordinate wordsubterm

Related word relations

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5 relation types

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3 entries
semantic relationtaxonomy relationword

More specific

6 entries
member conceptnarrow conceptnarrow termspecific termsubcategorysubtype

Collocations

5 entries
lexical itemlinguistic termsemantic relationspecific termtaxonomic hierarchy

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

2 entries

Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The words “dog”, “cat”, and “horse” are hyponyms of “animal” because dogs, cats, and horses are types of animal.

Source: wiktionary

Woman itself has as other hyponyms, sculptress and waitress, but is itself a hyponym of adult.

Source: wiktionary

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