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hypernyms

hypernyms is the plural of hypernym.

Meaning of hypernym

Noun

hypernym (plural hypernyms)

  1. 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.
    • “Musical instrument” is a hypernym of “guitar” because a guitar is a musical instrument: a guitar belongs to a class or type of musical instruments.

Questions about hypernyms

What is hypernyms the plural of?
Hypernyms is the plural of hypernym.

Words near hypernyms in the dictionary

  1. hypernymic
  2. hypernymically
  3. hypernymies
  4. hypernymous
  5. hypernymously
  6. hypernyms
  7. hypernymy
  8. hyperoartian
  9. hyperoartians
  10. hyperobese
  11. hyperobesity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hypernyms (page history and authors); hypernym (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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