Chapter 7 Sense relations between words.docVIP

Chapter 7 Sense relations between words Words may be classified according to the relation between their sense. The two majoy types of sense relation between words are synonymy and antonymy Synonymy (同义关系) --similarity:It refers to the words which have nearly the same denotative meaning(外延意义) are synonyms,and the relationship between them is one of synonymy. A synonym refers to one of two or more words in the English language which have the same or very nearly the same essential meaning comment on the traditional definition of synonyms,what’s your definition for synonyms? syn-together noy