ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Autohyponym

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Autohyponym is a noun meaning A word that is a hyponym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a stricter subsense whose denotation is entirely a subset of a broader sense.

Meaning

A word that is a hyponym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a stricter subsense whose denotation is entirely a subset of a broader sense.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include autohyponymy, taxonym, hyponymy, hypernym, hyperonymy, co-hyponym.

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