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Hyponym vs Meronym - What's the difference?

hyponym | meronym |

In semantics terms the difference between hyponym and meronym

is that hyponym is a more specific term; a subordinate grouping word or phrase while meronym is a term used to denote a thing that is a part of something else.

hyponym

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (semantics) A more specific term; a subordinate grouping word or phrase.

    • Antonyms

    * hypernym

    Related terms

    * hyponymic * hyponymous * hyponymy

    See also

    * (wikipedia) * troponym, the corresponding idea, as applied to verbs. ----

    meronym

    English

    Noun

    (Meronymy) (en noun)
  • (semantics) A term used to denote a thing that is a part of something else.
    • "Wheels" is a meronym of the word "automobile".
  • * 1998 , George A. Miller, “Nouns in WordNet”, in Christiane Fellbaum (editor), Wordnet: An Electronic Lexical Database , MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-06197-X, page 38,
    • If one starts with some complex whole, like {automobile''} or {''human_body''}, it can be broken down into several levels of meronyms''', but many of those '''meronyms''' will also be ' meronyms of other wholes. That is to say, some components serve as parts of many different things: think of all the different mechanisms that have gears.

    Antonyms

    * holonym

    Derived terms

    * * *

    Holonyms

    * *

    See also

    * ----