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meronymy

 

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Noun meronymy has 1 sense
  1. meronymy, part to whole relation - the semantic relation that holds between a part and the whole
    --1 is a kind of semantic relation
    --1 has parts: part, portion, component part, component

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Meronymy

Part of Speech: Noun

Sense 1: The semantic relation between a whole and its parts

Sample Sentence: In the sentence "The engine is part of the car," meronymy is illustrated as the car represents the whole and the engine represents one of its parts.

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