subdefinition

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A lesser or secondary definition.
    — In the four-volume supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary (hereafter, OED), its editor, Burchfield, supplied a separate subdefinition stating that Hobson-Jobson was ‘[u]sed as the title of a famous collection of Anglo-Indian words’ [...] Thus, along with the Bible and the Koran, Hobson-Jobson, the book, has been elevated to the special status of being defined in the OED.

词形变化

subdefinitions plural

词源

From sub- + definition.
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