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plea
Overview of noun plea
The noun plea has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. supplication, plea -- (a humble request for help from someone in authority)
2. plea -- ((law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer))
3. plea -- (an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun plea
3 senses of plea
Sense 1
supplication, plea
=> entreaty, prayer, appeal
=> request, asking
=> speech act
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
plea
=> answer
=> pleading
=> statement
=> message, content, subject matter, substance
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
plea
=> due process, due process of law
=> group action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun plea
1 of 3 senses of plea
Sense 2
plea
=> counterplea
=> dilatory plea
=> insanity plea, plea of insanity
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun plea
3 senses of plea
Sense 1
supplication, plea
=> entreaty, prayer, appeal
Sense 2
plea
=> answer
Sense 3
plea
=> due process, due process of law
Antonyms of noun plea
Member Holonyms of noun plea
Substance Holonyms of noun plea
Part Holonyms of noun plea
1 of 3 senses of plea
Sense 3
plea
PART OF: trial
Member Meronyms of noun plea
Substance Meronyms of noun plea
Part Meronyms of noun plea
Meronyms of noun plea
Holonyms of noun plea
1 of 3 senses of plea
Sense 3
plea
PART OF: trial
Attributes of noun plea
Derived Forms of noun plea
Domain of noun plea
2 of 3 senses of plea
Sense 2
plea
TOPIC>(noun) law#2, jurisprudence#2
Sense 3
plea
TOPIC>(noun) law#2, jurisprudence#2
Domain Terms of noun plea
Familiarity of noun plea
plea used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun plea
3 senses of plea
Sense 1
supplication, plea
> entreaty, prayer, appeal
=> adjuration
=> demagoguery, demagogy
=> supplication, plea
=> solicitation
=> suit
=> courtship, wooing, courting, suit
Sense 2
plea
> answer
=> evasive answer
=> nolo contendere, non vult
=> plea
Sense 3
plea
> due process, due process of law
=> proceeding, legal proceeding, proceedings
=> presentment, notification
=> judgment, judgement, judicial decision
=> eviction, dispossession, legal ouster
=> plea
=> defense, defence, denial, demurrer
Meronyms of noun plea
3 senses of plea
Sense 2
plea
=> answer
=> pleading
HAS PART: bill of Particulars
Holonyms of noun plea
1 of 3 senses of plea
Sense 3
plea
PART OF: trial
Grep of noun plea
counterplea
dilatory plea
insanity plea
plea
plea bargain
plea bargaining
plea of insanity
pleader
pleading
pleading in the alternative
pleasance
pleasant island
pleasantness
pleasantry
pleaser
pleasing
pleasingness
pleasure
pleasure-pain principle
pleasure-unpleasure principle
pleasure boat
pleasure craft
pleasure ground
pleasure principle
pleasure seeker
pleasure trip
pleat
pleating
Grep of verb plea
plea-bargain
pleach
plead
please
pleat
Grep of adj plea
pleading
pleasant
pleasant-smelling
pleasant-tasting
pleased
pleasing
pleasurable
Grep of adv plea
pleadingly
pleasantly
please
pleasingly
pleasurably
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