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autoholonym

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English

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Examples
  • arm (whole limb) or
    arm (shoulder to elbow)
  • door (doorframe plus swinging part) or
    door (swinging part alone)

Etymology

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From auto- +‎ holonym; by surface analysis, auto- +‎ holo- +‎ -nym.

Noun

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autoholonym (plural autoholonyms)

  1. A word that is a holonym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a broader subsense that denotes a whole comprising the part (portion) that the stricter main sense denotes.
    Hypernyms: polyseme, < word, < term
    Coordinate term: automeronym
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See also

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