Hyponymとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪpəʊ.nɪm/, /ˈhaɪpə.nɪm/
  • Homophone: hypernym
• (米国発音, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪ.poʊ.nɪm/, /ˈhaɪpə.nɪm/

名詞

hyponym (複数形 hyponyms)

1. (semantics) A more specific term; a subordinate grouping word or phrase; a term designating a subclass of another more general class described by the given word.

   The word “dog” is a hyponym of “animal” because dogs are a type of animal.

   • 1977, Ruth Kempson, Semantic Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 86:

     Woman itself has as other hyponyms, sculptress and waitress, but is itself a hyponym of adult.

同意語

• subordinate

反意語

• hypernym, hyperonym, superordinate

等位語

• synonym
• meronym
• troponym (the corresponding idea, as applied to verbs)
• More: see Wiktionary:Semantic relations

派生語

参考

• category, class, kind, instance, specialization, subcategory, subdivision, subset, subtype, type