Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Meronymy is a semantic relation. A meronym is the name of a constituent part of, the substance of, or a member of something. Meronymy is opposite to holonymy. So: X is a meronym of Y if X is a part of Y. X is a meronym of Y if X is a substance of Y. X is a meronym of Y if X is a member of Y. 'Blue' is a meronym of 'colour'. 'Doctor' is a meronym of 'professional'. 'St Paul's Cathedral' is a meronym of 'Church of England'. External links Academic paper entitled Classification of Meronymy by Methods of Relational Concept Analysis: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/event/maics96/Proceedings/Priss/priss.html This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.