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Metronym vs Meronym - What's the difference?

metronym | meronym |

As nouns the difference between metronym and meronym

is that metronym is the name of someone's mother while meronym is a term used to denote a thing that is a part of something else.

metronym

English

Alternative forms

* matronym

Noun

(en noun)
  • The name of someone's mother.
  • A matronymic surname.

    • Related terms

    * metronymic

    See also

    * patronym * -onym English words suffixed with -onym

    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

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