avalanche
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- avalanche derivation
Sense 2 verb
gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow
Types & categories
- come down hypernym
Related & opposite
- avalanche derivation
Sense 3 noun
a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things
the program brought an avalanche of mail
Types & categories
- happening hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | avalanche |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | slide |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | lahar |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | avalanche |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | come down |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | happening |