Semantics Meaning

Question 1

Antonymy

Answer 1

Opposite meaning
tall - short
Gradable: Hot - cold
Non-gradable: king- queen
Complementaries: (either or relationship) dead - alive, pass -fail

Question 2

Hyponymy - Hyponym

Answer 2

Kind of ness
Apple is a hyponym of fruit
Bee is a hyponym of insect

Question 3

Hyperonym

Answer 3

Relation - under beneath
Fruit is a hyperonym of apple
Insect is a hyperonym of bee

Question 4

Taxonomy

Answer 4

Classification of biological species
“Swamp white oak is a type of white oak; white oak is a type of oak, oak is a tree, and tree is plant.”

Question 5

Meronym

Answer 5

Relation - part of whole
A sleeve is a meronym of shirt

Question 6

Holonym

Answer 6

Relation - inverse meaning of mertonym “complete, total”
Body is holynym of arm

Question 7

Synonymy

Answer 7

Words that are similiar in meaning
“That cake is big!”
“That cake is large!”

Question 8

Monosemy

Answer 8

Relation - mono = one
Lucrative has only one meaning = monosemous word

Question 9

Polysemy

Answer 9

Relation: Poly - many
When a word has can have distinct but related senses
“I saw a deer yesterday.”
“I had some deer for lunch.”

Question 10

Homonymy

Answer 10

Separate words with unrelated senses that happen to be represented by the same symbol or form: (pronunciation and/ or spelling)
Bank and bank - “riverbank” vs. “financial institution”, these meanings seem to be unrelated.

Homophones = two words that sound the same.
Homographs = two words that are spelled the same.

Fair and fare = homophones (both pronounced the same, but not homographs)
Bow (weapon) and bow (bow one’s head) = homograph but not homophones
Bank (financial institution) bank (riverbank) = homographs and homophones