meronymy

Questions about meronymy

What does meronymy mean?

meronymy means "the semantic relation that holds between a part and the whole".

How many syllables are in meronymy?

meronymy has 4 syllables and divides as me-ro-ny-my under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for meronymy?

Close synonyms include part to whole relation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is meronymy a common word?

meronymy is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.