Praetorian
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 member of the Praetorian Guard
Types & categories
- escort hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Praetorian Guard member holonym
Sense 2 adjective
characteristic of or similar to the corruptible soldiers in the Praetorian Guard with respect to corruption or political venality
a large Praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious...and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble
Related & opposite
- corrupt similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Praetorian Guard |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | escort |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | corrupt |