hyponym

English

Etymology

hypo- + -onym

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈhaɪpəʊ.nɪm/
• (US) IPA: /ˈhaɪ.poʊ.nɪm/
• Rhymes: -ɪm

Noun

hyponym (plural hyponyms)

1. (semantics) A more specific term; a subordinate grouping word or phrase.

   Dog is a hyponym of animal.

   British is a hyponym of European.

   "A is a hyponym of B" means that "A is a type of B."

Antonyms

• hypernym

Related terms

• hyponymic
• hyponymous
• hyponymy

Translations

more specific word

Czech: hyponymum (cs) n. Dutch: hyponiem (nl) n. Esperanto: hiponimo (eo) Finnish: alakäsite (fi), hyponyymi (fi) French: hyponyme (fr) m. German: Unterbegriff (de) m., Hyponym (de) n. Greek: υπώνυμο (el) n. Icelandic: undirheiti (is) n. Italian: iponimo (it) m.

Japanese: 下位語 (ja) (かいご, kaigo) Portuguese: hipónimo (pt) m. Russian: гипоним (ru) (gipónim) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: хипо̀нӣм (sh) m. Roman: hipònīm (sh) m. Slovene: podpomenka (sl) f. Spanish: hipónimo (es) m. Swedish: hyponym (sv) c. Turkish: alt kavram (tr)

See also

• Hyponym on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• troponym, the corresponding idea, as applied to verbs.

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Swedish

Noun

hyponym c.

1. hyponym

Declension

Declension of hyponym

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hyponym	hyponymen	hyponymer	hyponymerna
genitive	hyponyms	hyponymens	hyponymers	hyponymernas