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English
Etymology
From the Greek meros "part" + onoma "name"

Noun
en-noun

1. A word that represents a part of a whole.

#: Examples:
#:: arm is a meronym of body
#:: letter is a meronym of word

Synonyms
synecdoche

Antonyms
holonym

Related terms
meronymy

Holonyms
semantic network
thesaurus

Hypernyms
semantic relation

sv:meronym

• 2007-10-02 19:29 - RJFJR - use en-noun

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