Editing Lexical semantics (section)

=== Semantic networks ===
Lexical semantics also explores whether the meaning of a lexical unit is established by looking at its neighbourhood in the [[semantic network]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Segev |first1=Elad |title=Semantic Network Analysis in Social Sciences |date=2022 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=9780367636524 |url=https://www.routledge.com/Semantic-Network-Analysis-in-Social-Sciences/Segev/p/book/9780367636524 |access-date=5 December 2021 |archive-date=5 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211205140726/https://www.routledge.com/Semantic-Network-Analysis-in-Social-Sciences/Segev/p/book/9780367636524 |url-status=live }}</ref>  (words it occurs with in natural sentences), or whether the meaning is already locally contained in the lexical unit.

In English, [[WordNet]] is an example of a semantic network. It contains English words that are grouped into [[Synonym Ring|synsets]]. Some semantic relations between these synsets are [[meronymy]], [[hyponymy]], [[synonymy]], and [[antonymy]].