personify
verb
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
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
invest with or as with a body; give body to
Types & categories
- personify hypernym
Related & opposite
- person derivation
- dead body derivation
- prosopopoeia derivation
- personification derivation
Sense 2 verb
represent, as of a character on stage
Derek Jacobi was Hamlet
Types & categories
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
attribute human qualities to something
The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous
Types & categories
- attribute hypernym
Related & opposite
- person derivation
- personification derivation
- person derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | person |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dead body |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | prosopopoeia |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | personification |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | personify |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | image |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | persona |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | stand for |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | body |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | exemplify |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | person |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | personification |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | person |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | attribute |