gros ventre

Questions about gros ventre

What is another word for gros ventre?

It depends which gros ventre you mean. In the sense “a member of the Sioux people formerly inhabiting an area along the Missouri river in western North Dakota”, the synonyms are Hidatsa. Across all 2 senses there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of gros ventre?

WordNet records no antonym for gros ventre. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Why are the synonyms for gros ventre split into groups?

Because gros ventre carries 2 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for gros ventre come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of gros ventre

• Full entry for gros ventreAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for gros ventreWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.