part name

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   a word that names a part of a larger whole

   “`brim' and `crown' are meronyms of `hat'”

   Synonymsmeronym

   Broaderword

Questions about part name

What does part name mean?

part name means "a word that names a part of a larger whole".

What is another word for part name?

Close synonyms include meronym. 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 part name a common word?

part name 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.