no man's land
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
an unoccupied area between the front lines of opposing armies
Types & categories
- area hypernym
Sense 2 noun
land that is unowned and uninhabited (and usually undesirable)
Types & categories
- land hypernym
Sense 3 noun
the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both)
but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal
Types & categories
- equivocalness hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | area |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | land |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | equivocalness |