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cohyponymy

cohyponymy noun: the semantic relation between cohyponyms (coordinate terms); the quality of being cohyponymous (coordinate).

Noun

cohyponymy (uncountable)

  1. The semantic relation between cohyponyms (coordinate terms); the quality of being cohyponymous (coordinate).
    • Hansen et al. (1982, 202) mention the following semantic relations that systematically obtain between the senses of polysemic words: (conceptual) hyponymy, hyperonymy and cohyponymy on the one hand, and (figurative) metonymy and meta­phor on the other.2013, Aleš Klégr, “The limits of polysemy: enantiosemy”, in Linguistica Pragensia, volume 23, number 2, Prague: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, page 9
    • A first step in this direction was taken by Heylen et al. (2008), who focused on a larger set of elementary relations, including synonymy, hypernymy and hyponymy, in addition to the composed relation of cohyponymy.2015, Olivier Ferret, “Typing Relations in Distributional Thesauri”, in Núria Gala, Reinhard Rapp, Gemma Bel-Enguix, editors, Language Production, Cognition, and the Lexicon (Text, Speech and...

Synonyms of cohyponymy

Origin of cohyponymy

From co- + hyponymy or cohyponym + -y.

Questions about cohyponymy

What does cohyponymy mean?
Cohyponymy means the semantic relation between cohyponyms (coordinate terms); the quality of being cohyponymous (coordinate).
What part of speech is cohyponymy?
Cohyponymy is a noun.

Words near cohyponymy in the dictionary

  1. cohyponymic
  2. cohyponymically
  3. cohyponymous
  4. cohyponymously
  5. cohyponyms
  6. cohyponymy
  7. cohære
  8. cohæred
  9. cohærence
  10. cohærent
  11. cohæres

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