hand axe

Questions about hand axe

What is another word for hand axe?

It depends which hand axe you mean. In the sense “a stone tool with a cutting edge; the stone is held in the hand and used for chopping”, the synonyms are hand ax. Across all 1 sense 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 hand axe?

WordNet records no antonym for hand axe. 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.

Where do the synonyms for hand axe 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 hand axe

• Full entry for hand axeAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for hand axeWhether 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.