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TROPONYMY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The place names of a region or a language considered collectively
Synonyms:
troponomy; troponymy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("troponymy" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Meronyms (parts of "troponymy"):
place name; toponym (the name by which a geographical place is known)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The semantic relation of being a manner of does something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("troponymy" is a kind of...):
semantic relation (a relation between meanings)