Associations to the word «Meronymy»

Wiktionary

MERONYMY, noun. (semantics) The relationship of being a constituent part or member of something; a system of meronyms.

Dictionary definition

MERONYMY, noun. The semantic relation that holds between a part and the whole.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne