English Explanatory Dictionary

autohyponym

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.

Word forms

autohyponym autohyponyms

Etymology

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

Related words

autohyponymy hypernymy hyponymy cohyponym comeronym strictly speaking stricto sensu

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