meronymy
/məˈrɑnəmi/
noun
- The relationship between a word for a part and the word for the whole it belongs to (e.g., 'finger' is in a meronymy relationship with 'hand').
- In the sentence 'The roof of the house is red', there is a meronymy between 'roof' and 'house'.
- Meronymy helps linguists understand how languages describe parts of objects.
- The dictionary entry explained the meronymy between 'page' and 'book'.
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