type-token distinction (English, noun)
expansion: type-token distinction (plural type-token distinctions)
Senses:
glosses: The distinction between a type of something and an instance of it, such as city and capital city (type of city) versus city and Paris (instance of a city). (It is the difference between (1) hypernym and hyponym and (2) class and instance.)
glosses: An instance of this distinction being made.
Forms:
form: type-token distinctions
tags: plural