Home › Words › A › autoholonymautoholonymautoholonym means 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.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, autoholonym ranks #10,506 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom auto- + holonym; by surface analysis, auto- + holo- + -nym.nounA 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.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.automeronym 87% match — A word that is a meronym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a stricter subsense that denotes a part (portion) of what the broader main sense denotes. vs autoholonym →autohyponym 84% match — A word that is a hyponym of itself. vs autoholonym →autohypernym 84% match — A word that is a hypernym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a broader secondary sense whose denotation is a superset of what the stricter main sense denotes. vs autoholonym →autoholonymy 83% match — The semantic relation between senses of a word such that one sense is holonymous to another. vs autoholonym →autohyponymous 74% match — Being or relating to an autohyponym: a polysemous word (that is, one with multiple senses) such that one sense is a hyponym of another. vs autoholonym →holonym 73% match — A term that denotes the whole of which another term's referent is a part. vs autoholonym →autohyponymy 71% match — The quality or state of being an autohyponym; the semantic relation between a sense of a term (word) with another sense of the same term. vs autoholonym →holonymy 70% match — A semantic relation that exists between a term denoting a whole (the holonym) and a term denoting a part that pertains to the whole (the meronym). vs autoholonym →