whole name

1. 1.

   a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part

   “`hat' is a holonym for `brim' and `crown'”

   Synonymsholonym

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Questions about whole name

What does whole name mean?

whole name means "a word that names the whole of which a given word is a part".

What is another word for whole name?

Close synonyms include holonym. 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 whole name a common word?

whole name is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.