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autohypernyms

autohypernyms is the plural of autohypernym.

Meaning of autohypernym

Noun

autohypernym (plural autohypernyms)

  1. A word that is a hypernym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a broader secondary sense whose denotation is a superset of what the stricter main sense denotes.

Questions about autohypernyms

What is autohypernyms the plural of?
Autohypernyms is the plural of autohypernym.

Words near autohypernyms in the dictionary

  1. autohybridize
  2. autohybridized
  3. autohydrogenotrophic
  4. autohydrolysis
  5. autohypernym
  6. autohypernyms
  7. autohypernymy
  8. autohyperonymy
  9. autohypnoses
  10. autohypnosis
  11. autohypnotic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autohypernyms (page history and authors); autohypernym (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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