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

Hypernyms

• word

Derived terms

• hypernymic
• hypernymous
• hypernymy

Translations

superordinate grouping word

• Catalan: hiperònim (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 上位詞 (cmn), 上位词 (cmn) (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
• Italian: iperonimo (it) m

• Japanese: 上位語 (ja) (じょういご, jōigo)
• Portuguese: hiperónimo (pt) m
• Russian: гипероним (ru) (giperónim) 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