A word of more
specific meaning than a general or superordinate term applicable to it. For
example, spoon is a hyponym of cutlery.
Contrasted with hypernym
Hypernym
A word with a broad
meaning constituting a category into which words with more specific meanings
fall; a superordinate. For example, colour is a hypernym of red.
Contrasted with hyponym
Taxonomy
Look at the
following list: — Tea — Black coffee — coffee — Milk — White coffee — Beverage From the list, we can
make the taxonomy as follow: Beverage tea coffee milk Black coffee White coffee
IDIOM
An idiom is a group of words in
which the meaning cannot be explained in terms of the habitual meanings of the
words that make up the piece of language
A red letter day (a day that
will never be forgotten)
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