semantic
See also: semàntic
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French sémantique.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɪˈmæntɪk/
- Rhymes: -æntɪk
Adjective
semantic (not comparable)
Antonyms
- antisemantic
Derived terms
- presemantic
- semantically
- semantic change
- semantic field
- semantic shift
- semantic versioning
Related terms
Translations
of or relating to semantics or the meanings of words
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References
Semantic Web on Wikipedia.Wikipedia- “semantic” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “semantic” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "semantic" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.
- "Semantic code: What? Why? How?" in boagworld.
- semantic at OneLook Dictionary Search
Noun
semantic (plural semantics)
- (linguistics) In such writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a phono-semantic character that provides an indication of its meaning; contrasted with phonetic.
- 2005, Friedrich Alexander Bischoff, Yinglin Wang, San tzu ching explicated, the classical initiation to classic Chinese couplet I to XI, page 21:
- Its semantic is polysyllabic, viz. it uses the word formations of spoken Chinese.
- 2013, William S-Y. Wang, Love and War in Ancient China: Voices from the Shijing, page 25:
- In this particular case, the semantic is on the left of its host sinogram.
- 2017, Vladimir Skultety, Understanding Chinese Characters:
- The 亻(人) ren2 'person' semantic has been replaced by 氵(水) shui3 'water' semantic in浸, but帚 zhou3 'broom' has phonetically or semantically nothing to do with 浸 and is just a residue of 侵 after亻(人) ren2 'person' has been removed.
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