The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of an object's surrounding situation on qualifying word meaning in young children. The subjects were 50 children aged four to five years. When the experimenter labeled a novel word to target examples (i. e.“an elephant” or “a lion and a tiger”) which were in a cage, subjects were likely to qualify the word meaning only when being similarly restricted by its surrounding situation (a cage). On the other hand, when the experimenter labeled a novel word to target examples not in a cage, subjects were likely to qualify the word meaning with a conceptual level name (i. e.“elephant” or “animal”). The findings suggested that an object's surrounding situation had an effect on qualifying word meaning in young children.