social pharmacy d-pharm 1st year by Pragati K. Mahajan
Linguistics/by Nazik /college of Arts evening classes
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2. Synonymy :
Definition :
a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as
another word or phrase in the same language.
OR
Sameness of meaning .
3. Synonymy are tow or more than tow
words with very closely related
meaning. They can be often ,though
not always, be replaced for each other
in sentence.
10. Gradable
These describe something which can be measured and
compared with something else.
For example
small and big;
hot and cold;
dry and wet;
clean and dirty.
11. Non-Gradable
Here there is no comparison or scale; it is a
matter of being either one thing or another
For example
alive and dead: you are either alive or dead,
not somewhere in-between.
single and married; male and female.
13. Hyponymy
Hyponymy is the relationship between
hyponyms. Hyponyms is the word the meaning
of which may be said to be included in that of
another word