pun
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
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a humorous play on words
I do it for the pun of it
Types & categories
- fun hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
make a play on words
Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning
Types & categories
- joke hypernym
Related & opposite
- pun derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | punster |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | pun |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | fun |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pun |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | joke |