How to pronounce “hypernym”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (semantics) A superordinate word or phrase; a term whose referents form a set which includes as a subset the referents of a subordinate term—as, for example, insect (being a hypernym) for ant.
• [Adjective]
• hypernymous

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