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  1. n. semantics A word or phrase whose referents form a set including as a subset the referents of a subordinate term.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. a word that is more generic or more abstract than a given word; a word designating a class of which the given word is a member. Inverse of subtype and hyponym.

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  1. n. a word that is more generic than a given word

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  1. superordinate
  1. superordinate word

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  1. word

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  1. hyponym

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  • qroqqa An unfortunate choice of word, especially coming from linguists. To be well-formed Greek it should be 'hyperonym': this contains all the root ονυμ- "name", and clearly isn't a homophone of its antonym 'hyponym'. Jul 8, 2008

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