Rip van Winkle
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 person oblivious to social changes
Types & categories
- traditionalist hypernym
Sense 2 noun
a person who sleeps a lot
Types & categories
- sleeper hypernym
Sense 3 noun
the title character in a story by Washington Irving about a man who sleeps for 20 years and doesn't recognize the world when he wakens
Types & categories
- character instance hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | traditionalist |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | sleeper |
| 3 | instance hypernym | Types & categories | character |