Hyponymとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

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

名詞

hyponym (plural 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.

   Synonym: subordinate

   Antonyms: hypernym, hyperonym, superordinate

   Hyponym: troponym

   Coordinate terms: synonym; near-synonym; meronym; cohyponym; more at Wiktionary:Semantic relations

   The words “dog”, “cat”, and “horse” are hyponyms of “animal” because dogs, cats, and horses are types 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.

派生語

参考

• category, class, kind, instance, specialization, subcategory, subdivision, subset, subtype, type; is-a