(linguistics, translation studies) A group of words which all relate to the same subject or concept, or to overlapping aspects thereof.

(linguistics, computing) Having no semantic content.

(linguistics) A change in one of the meanings of a word over time.

Alternative form of phonosemantic

plural of semantic field

(linguistics) A process of borrowing semantic meaning from another language, where the complete word in the borrowing language already exists; the change is that its meaning is extended to include another meaning its existing translation has in the lending language.

(Internet) A proposed evolution of the World Wide Web whose pages have their subject matter formally encoded into them, without the need to rely on keyword phrases within the content.

plural of semantic network

plural of semantic net

plural of semantic loan