butchery
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 building where animals are butchered
Types & categories
- building hypernym
Related & opposite
- slaughter derivation
Sense 2 noun
the business of a butcher
Types & categories
- business enterprise hypernym
Parts & wholes
- slaughter part meronym
Related & opposite
- slaughter derivation
Sense 3 noun
the savage and excessive killing of many people
Types & categories
- murder hypernym
- bloodbath hyponym
- Alamo instance hyponym
- Battle of Little Bighorn instance hyponym
Related & opposite
- massacre derivation
- slaughter derivation
- sanguinary derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | slaughter |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | building |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | slaughter |
| 2 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | slaughter |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | business enterprise |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | massacre |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | slaughter |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | sanguinary |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | murder |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | bloodbath |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Alamo |
| 3 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Battle of Little Bighorn |