PORTMANTEAU WORD vs PARONYM: NOUN
- A word which combines the meaning of two words (or, rarely, more than two words), formed by combining the words, usually, but not always, by adjoining the first part of one word and the last part of the other, the adjoining parts often having a common vowel; for example, smog, formed from smoke and fog.
- A new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings
- A word derived from the same root, or with the same sound, as another word.
- A word of one language which translates a word of another with only a difference of termination or other slight change, as English canal for the Latin canalis: opposed to heteronym.
- A word which is a derivative from another.
- A paronymous word.
PORTMANTEAU WORD vs PARONYM: OTHER WORD TYPES
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- A word that strongly resembles another word in spelling
PORTMANTEAU WORD vs PARONYM: RELATED WORDS
- Abstractness, Hybridity, Metonymy, Onomatopoeic, Slanguage, Tabula, Diphthong, Lexis, Pluralized, Neologism, Folk etymology, Idiom, Noun, Blend, Portmanteau
- Onym, Language unit, Function word, Anthimeria, Concrete noun, Iotacism, Paragoge, Minimal pair, Verb phrase, Metaplast, Noun phrase, Alpha privative, Content word, Common noun, Isonym
PORTMANTEAU WORD vs PARONYM: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Bricolage, Abstractness, Hybridity, Metonymy, Onomatopoeic, Slanguage, Tabula, Diphthong, Lexis, Pluralized, Neologism, Folk etymology, Idiom, Noun, Blend
- Onym, Language unit, Function word, Anthimeria, Concrete noun, Iotacism, Paragoge, Minimal pair, Verb phrase, Metaplast, Noun phrase, Alpha privative, Content word, Common noun, Isonym
PORTMANTEAU WORD vs PARONYM: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- But the word he actually used is a portmanteau word that has the feeling of both these meanings and perhaps a little more.
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PORTMANTEAU WORD vs PARONYM: QUESTIONS
- What is a portmanteau word for something that is joined together?
- How many words can I enter in the portmanteau word-merge tool?
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