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SEMANTIC RELATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A relation between meanings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("semantic relation" is a kind of...):
linguistic relation (a relation between linguistic forms or constituents)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "semantic relation"):
hyponymy; subordination (the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class)
hypernymy; superordination (the semantic relation of being superordinate or belonging to a higher rank or class)
synonymity; synonymousness; synonymy (the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning)
antonymy (the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express opposite meanings)
holonymy; whole to part relation (the semantic relation that holds between a whole and its parts)
meronymy; part to whole relation (the semantic relation that holds between a part and the whole)
troponymy (the semantic relation of being a manner of does something)
