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Hyponymy is the relation that holds, for instance, between scarlet and red, or between tulip and flower, in English; i.e., scarlet is a hyponym of, is included in, red.
and here's one we should know: a metonym is a word used in a transferred sense.
then there is paranym, a near-synonym. which itself became a metonym when a newspaper columnist began collecting what *he called ‘paranyms’ — words whose meaning is generally the opposite of that intended by the speaker, such as ‘provisional’ or ‘liberation’ or ‘rationalise’; the writer Brian Aldiss thereupon contributed an example he had found in the New Testament: ‘“ever~lasting life”; in other words “death”’.
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WhitmanO'Neill 06/30/2001 9:29 PM ![]()
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