“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.
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Hypernym
//ˈhaɪpɚnɪm//
Synonyms for "hypernym" (8 found)
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Noun(2 words)
Related words (4)
Noun(3 words)
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4 entriesderived
3 entriesetymologically related_to
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5 entriesTranslations
43 translations across 32 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- սեռանիշ noun (superordinate grouping word)
Bulgarian
1 entries- хипероним noun (superordinate grouping word)
Catalan
1 entries- hiperònim noun (superordinate grouping word)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 上位詞 /上位词 noun (superordinate grouping word)
Czech
1 entries- hyperonymum noun (superordinate grouping word)
Danish
3 entries- fællesbetegnelse noun (superordinate grouping word)
- hypernym noun (superordinate grouping word)
- overbegreb noun (superordinate grouping word)
Dutch
2 entries- hyperoniem noun (superordinate grouping word)
- koepelwoord noun (superordinate grouping word)
Finnish
2 entries- hyperonyymi noun (superordinate grouping word)
- yläkäsite noun (superordinate grouping word)
French
1 entries- hyperonyme noun (superordinate grouping word)
Galician
1 entries- hiperónimo noun (superordinate grouping word)
Georgian
1 entries- ჰიპერნიმი noun (superordinate grouping word)
German
2 entries- Hyperonym noun (superordinate grouping word)
- Oberbegriff noun (superordinate grouping word)
Greek
1 entries- υπερώνυμο noun (superordinate grouping word)
Hungarian
2 entries- fölérendelt fogalom/szó/név/kifejezés noun (superordinate grouping word)
- hiperonima noun (superordinate grouping word)
Icelandic
1 entries- yfirheiti noun (superordinate grouping word)
Indonesian
1 entries- hipernim noun (superordinate grouping word)
Irish
1 entries- scáth-théarma noun (superordinate grouping word)
Italian
1 entries- iperonimo noun (superordinate grouping word)
Japanese
1 entries- 上位語 noun (superordinate grouping word)
Korean
1 entries- 상위어 noun (superordinate grouping word)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- hîpernîm noun (superordinate grouping word)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- hyperonym noun (superordinate grouping word)
- overbegrep noun (superordinate grouping word)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- hyperonym noun (superordinate grouping word)
- overbegrep noun (superordinate grouping word)
Polish
1 entries- hiperonim noun (superordinate grouping word)
Portuguese
2 entries- hiperónimo noun (superordinate grouping word)
- hiperônimo noun (superordinate grouping word)
Russian
1 entries- гиперо́ним noun (superordinate grouping word)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- hiperònīm noun (superordinate grouping word)
- хиперо̀нӣм noun (superordinate grouping word)
Slovak
1 entries- hyperonymum noun (superordinate grouping word)
Spanish
1 entries- hiperónimo noun (superordinate grouping word)
Swedish
2 entries- hyperonym noun (superordinate grouping word)
- överbegrepp noun (superordinate grouping word)
Turkish
1 entries- şemsiye terim noun (superordinate grouping word)
Vietnamese
1 entries- từ thượng vị noun (superordinate grouping word)
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Hypernyms of “dog” and “cat” include “mammal”, “pet”, “carnivore”, and “quadruped”.
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