Uncle Tom
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
(ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites
Types & categories
- Black person hypernym
Related & opposite
- derogation domain usage
- ethnic slur domain usage
Sense 2 noun
a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Types & categories
- character instance hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | domain usage | Related & opposite | derogation |
| 1 | domain usage | Related & opposite | ethnic slur |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | Black person |
| 2 | instance hypernym | Types & categories | character |