hypernym

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek hyper- (“over”) + -onym (“name”). From Greek roots; compare Latinate “superordinate term”.

Noun

hypernym (plural hypernyms)

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

   "Musical instrument" is a hypernym of "guitar" because musical instruments include guitars.

Synonyms

• (superordinate): genus, superordinate, hyperonym
• blanket term, umbrella term (informal)

Antonyms

• (superordinate): hyponym, species, subordinate

Derived terms

• hypernymic
• hypernymous
• hypernymy

Translations

superordinate grouping word

Chinese: Mandarin: 上位詞 (zh), 上位词 (zh) (shàngwèicí) Czech: hyperonymum (cs) n. Dutch: hyperoniem (nl) n. Finnish: yläkäsite (fi), hyperonyymi (fi) French: hyperonyme (fr) m. German: Oberbegriff (de) m., Hyperonym (de) Icelandic: yfirheiti (is) n.

Japanese: 上位語 (ja) (jōi-go) Portuguese: hiperónimo (pt) m. Russian: гипероним (ru) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: хиперо̀нӣм (sh) m. Roman: hiperònīm (sh) m. Spanish: hiperónimo (es) m. Swedish: hyperonym (sv) c.

See also

• is-a
• has-a