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An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
WE Charity (French: Organisme UNIS), formerly known as Free the Children (French: Enfants Entraide), is an international development charity and youth empowerment movement founded in 1995 by human rights advocates Marc and Craig Kielburger. [1]
Voluntary childlessness or childfreeness [1] [2] is the active choice not to have children. Use of the word "childfree" was first recorded in 1901 [3] and entered common usage among feminists during the 1970s. [4] The suffix -free refers to the freedom and personal choice of those to
wag, now meaning "person fond of making jokes," is recorded in English since 1553; it derives from the verb to wag (i.e. to make a swinging movement), perhaps in this context as a shortening of waghalter "gallows bird," a person destined to swing in a noose or halter, soon applied humorously to mischievous children (the same notion remains in ...
The original edition had 15,000 words and each successive edition has been larger, [3] with the most recent edition (the eighth) containing 443,000 words. [6] The book is updated regularly and each edition is heralded as a gauge to contemporary terms; but each edition keeps true to the original classifications established by Roget. [2]
In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation . [ 2 ]
She has written 5 books: Semantic Relations and the Lexicon, [5] Key Terms in Semantics, [6] Lexical Meaning, [7] Antonyms in English, [8] and The Prodigal Tongue. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Her book The Prodigal Tongue (for which she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities [ 11 ] ), and her blog Separated by a Common ...
Antonyms are words with opposite or nearly opposite meanings. For example: hot ↔ cold, large ↔ small, thick ↔ thin, synonym ↔ antonym; Hypernyms and hyponyms are words that refer to, respectively, a general category and a specific instance of that category. For example, vehicle is a hypernym of car, and car is a hyponym of vehicle.