Definition of AUTOHYPONYM

autohyponym

Meanings

Plural: autohyponyms

Noun

  • A word that is a hyponym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a stricter subsense whose denotation is entirely a subset of a broader sense.

Origin / Etymology

From auto- + hyponym; by surface analysis, auto- + hypo- + -nym.

Scrabble Score: 0

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Words With Friends Score: 0

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