Pronounced: VIH-luh-pend, verb
Notes: I didn’t know this word, but it makes me think of “villain”
Yesterday’s word
The word hyponym is “a more specific term in a general class”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1960s
Background / Comments
Examples are useful: “blue” is a hyponym of “color”. Oddly enough, I happened to recently learn that “javelin” is a hyponym of “spear” (a javelin is a subclass of spear; a spear can be thrust or thrown, but a javelin is a light spear that is thrown). Our word came from the Greek word hypo- (under) and -nym (name).
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