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hypernym

(n): a word that is more generic than a given word
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about 1 month ago qroqqa said:

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'.

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