SPIDER'S WEB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spider's web mean? 

• SPIDER'S WEB (noun)
  The noun SPIDER'S WEB has 2 senses:

1. a web resembling the webs spun by spiders

2. a web spun by spiders to trap insect prey

  Familiarity information: SPIDER'S WEB used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPIDER'S WEB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A web resembling the webs spun by spiders

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

spider's web; spider web

Hypernyms ("spider's web" is a kind of...):

entanglement; web (an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A web spun by spiders to trap insect prey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

spider's web; spider web

Hypernyms ("spider's web" is a kind of...):

web (an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spider's web"):

cobweb (a dense elaborate spider web that is more efficient than the orb web)

funnel web (a funnel-shaped spider web; the funnel-web spider perches in the center of the web)

orb web (a circular spider web)

sheet web (an irregular spider web woven in a single plane and looking like flattened hammocks)

 Context examples 

English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to wear them round your neck—nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection; and for number, I am sure they were like autumn leaves, so that my back ached with stooping and my fingers with sorting them out.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)