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mainstay
Overview of noun mainstay
The noun mainstay has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. pillar, mainstay -- (a prominent supporter; "he is a pillar of the community")
2. anchor, mainstay, keystone, backbone, linchpin, lynchpin -- (a central cohesive source of support and stability; "faith is his anchor"; "the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money"; "he is the linchpin of this firm")
3. mainstay -- (the forestay that braces the mainmast)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mainstay
3 senses of mainstay
Sense 1
pillar, mainstay
=> supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend
=> advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
=> organism, being
=> living thing, animate thing
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> causal agent, cause, causal agency
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
anchor, mainstay, keystone, backbone, linchpin, lynchpin
=> support
=> influence
=> determinant, determiner, determinative, determining factor, causal factor
=> cognitive factor
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
mainstay
=> forestay
=> stay
=> brace, bracing
=> structural member
=> support
=> device
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
=> strengthener, reinforcement
=> device
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun mainstay
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mainstay
3 senses of mainstay
Sense 1
pillar, mainstay
=> supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend
Sense 2
anchor, mainstay, keystone, backbone, linchpin, lynchpin
=> support
Sense 3
mainstay
=> forestay
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Attributes of noun mainstay
Derived Forms of noun mainstay
Domain of noun mainstay
Domain Terms of noun mainstay
Familiarity of noun mainstay
mainstay used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun mainstay
3 senses of mainstay
Sense 1
pillar, mainstay
> supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend
=> anglophile, anglophil
=> believer, truster
=> Boswell
=> cheerleader
=> Confederate
=> enthusiast, partisan, partizan
=> Francophile, Francophil
=> free trader
=> functionalist
=> Jacobite
=> loyalist, stalwart
=> New Dealer
=> philhellene, philhellenist, Graecophile
=> pillar, mainstay
=> Roundhead
=> seconder
=> Shavian
=> subscriber, endorser, indorser, ratifier
=> sympathizer, sympathiser, well-wisher
=> toaster, wassailer
=> upholder, maintainer, sustainer
=> voucher, verifier
=> Whig
Sense 2
anchor, mainstay, keystone, backbone, linchpin, lynchpin
> support
=> anchor, mainstay, keystone, backbone, linchpin, lynchpin
=> lifeline
Sense 3
mainstay
> forestay
=> mainstay
Meronyms of noun mainstay
3 senses of mainstay
Sense 1
pillar, mainstay
=> supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend
=> advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent
=> person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
HAS PART: personality
HAS PART: trait
HAS PART: character, fiber, fibre
HAS PART: thoughtfulness
HAS PART: responsibility, responsibleness
HAS PART: integrity
HAS PART: nature
HAS PART: human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
=> organism, being
HAS SUBSTANCE: tissue
HAS PART: cell
HAS PART: cell membrane, cytomembrane, plasma membrane
HAS PART: energid, protoplast
HAS PART: cytoplasm, cytol
HAS PART: cytoskeleton
HAS PART: microsome
HAS PART: Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome
HAS PART: nucleus, cell nucleus, karyon
HAS PART: nucleolus, nucleole
HAS PART: chromatin, chromatin granule
HAS PART: achromatin
HAS PART: linin
HAS PART: chromosome
HAS PART: nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser
HAS PART: gene, cistron, factor
HAS PART: chromatid
HAS PART: centromere, kinetochore
HAS PART: telomere
HAS PART: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ
HAS PART: vacuole
HAS PART: body part
HAS PART: corpus
Sense 3
mainstay
=> forestay
=> stay
=> brace, bracing
=> structural member
=> support
=> device
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
HAS PART: part, portion
HAS PART: section, segment
=> strengthener, reinforcement
=> device
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
HAS PART: part, portion
HAS PART: section, segment
Holonyms of noun mainstay
Grep of noun mainstay
mainstay
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