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TROPONYMY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does troponymy mean?
• TROPONYMY (noun)
The noun TROPONYMY has 2 senses:
1. the semantic relation of being a manner of does something
2. the place names of a region or a language considered collectively
Familiarity information: TROPONYMY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The semantic relation of being a manner of does something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("troponymy" is a kind of...):
semantic relation (a relation between meanings)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The place names of a region or a language considered collectively
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
troponomy; troponymy
Hypernyms ("troponymy" is a kind of...):
accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)
Meronyms (parts of "troponymy"):
place name; toponym (the name by which a geographical place is known)
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