SEMANTIC RELATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does semantic relation mean? 

• SEMANTIC RELATION (noun)
  The noun SEMANTIC RELATION has 1 sense:

1. a relation between meanings

  Familiarity information: SEMANTIC RELATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEMANTIC RELATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A relation between meanings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("semantic relation" is a kind of...):

linguistic relation (a relation between linguistic forms or constituents)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "semantic relation"):

hyponymy; subordination (the semantic relation of being subordinate or belonging to a lower rank or class)

hypernymy; superordination (the semantic relation of being superordinate or belonging to a higher rank or class)

synonymity; synonymousness; synonymy (the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning)

antonymy (the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express opposite meanings)

holonymy; whole to part relation (the semantic relation that holds between a whole and its parts)

meronymy; part to whole relation (the semantic relation that holds between a part and the whole)

troponymy (the semantic relation of being a manner of does something)