grunt
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs
Types & categories
- noise hypernym
Related & opposite
- grunt derivation
Sense 2 verb
issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise
He grunted his reluctant approval
Types & categories
- let out hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker
infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts
Types & categories
- unskilled person hypernym
Sense 4 noun
medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught
Types & categories
- percoid fish hypernym
- margate hyponym
- Spanish grunt hyponym
- tomtate hyponym
- cottonwick hyponym
- sailors choice hyponym
- porkfish hyponym
- black margate hyponym
- Orthopristis chrysopterus hyponym
Parts & wholes
- Haemulidae member holonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | grunt |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | noise |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pig |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | grunt |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | grunter |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | let out |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | unskilled person |
| 4 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Haemulidae |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | percoid fish |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | margate |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Spanish grunt |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | tomtate |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | cottonwick |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | sailors choice |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | porkfish |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | black margate |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | Orthopristis chrysopterus |