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meronymies

meronymies is the plural of meronymy.

Meaning of meronymy

Noun

meronymy (countable and uncountable, plural meronymies)

  1. The relationship of being a constituent part or member of something; a system of meronyms.
    • This relationship of meronymy is controversial for various reasons. First, there are several types of meronymy, such as functional meronymy, where one concept is a functional part of another (e.g. FINGER-HAND) or more general part-whole relations, where the part and the whole exist as a continuous...1995, Jürgen Handke, The Structure of the Lexicon: Human Versus Machine, page 90
    Synonyms:
    partonym
    Antonyms:
    holonymy

Questions about meronymies

What is meronymies the plural of?
Meronymies is the plural of meronymy.

Words near meronymies in the dictionary

  1. meronts
  2. meronym
  3. meronymic
  4. meronymical
  5. meronymically
  6. meronymies
  7. meronymous
  8. meronymously
  9. meronyms
  10. meronymy
  11. Meroo

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