holonym

English

Etymology

From holo- +‎ -nym.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒl.əˌnɪm/, /ˈhəʊl.əˌnɪm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑl.əˌnɪm/, /ˈhoʊl.əˌnɪm/

Noun

holonym (plural holonyms)

2. (semantics, philosophy) A term that denotes the whole of which another term's referent is a part.

   Antonym: meronym

   Holonyms: semantic network, wordnet, thesaurus

   The word "face" is a holonym of the word "eye", which is a holonym of the word "retina".

Derived terms

• holonymic
• holonymous
• holonymy

Translations

term that denotes a whole

• Afrikaans: holoniem (af)
• Bulgarian: холоним m (holonim)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 整體詞 / 整体词 (zhěngtǐcí)

• Dutch: holoniem (nl) n
• Finnish: holonyymi (fi), kokonaiskäsite (fi)
• French: holonyme (fr) m
• German: Holonym (de) n, Gesamtbegriff m, Verbandsbegriff (de) m
• Polish: holonim (pl) m
• Spanish: holónimo (es) m
• Swedish: holonym (sv) c
• Vietnamese: từ tổng, tổng danh

See also

• hypernym
• synecdoche

• Wiktionary:Semantic relations

Swedish

Noun

holonym c

1. (semantics) holonym

Declension

Declension of holonym

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	holonym	holonyms
	definite	holonymen	holonymens
plural	indefinite	holonymer	holonymers
	definite	holonymerna	holonymernas