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Hypernymy

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superordinationnounThe ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor.

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superordinationnounThe ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor.
hyperonymynounAlternative spelling of hypernymy. [(semantics) The semantic relation between hypernyms; the quality of being hypernymous.]
hyponymynoun(semantics) The semantic relation between hyponyms; the quality of being hyponymous.
hypernymnoun(semantics) 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.
autohyponymynoun(semantics, linguistics) The quality or state of being an autohyponym; the semantic relation between a sense of a term (word) with another sense of the same term.
cohyponymynoun(semantics, linguistics) The semantic relation between cohyponyms (coordinate terms); the quality of being cohyponymous (coordinate).
antonymynoun(semantics) The semantic relation between antonyms; the quality of being antonymous.
taxonymynounThe relationship of a taxonym to its corresponding hypernym.
homonymynoun(semantics) The property of being a homonym.
taxonymnounA word used for classification purposes, that is, one that makes up part of a taxonomy; a name or label for a taxon or clade
holonymynoun(semantics, philosophy) A semantic relation that exists between a term denoting a whole (the holonym) and a term denoting a part that pertains to the whole (the meronym).
synonymousnessnounThe quality of being synonymous.
hypersynonymynoun(linguistics) The existence of a very large number of synonyms for a single concept.
coordinate termnoun(semantics) A term (word or noun phrase) that shares a hypernym (or hypernymic noun phrase) with another: that is, one that names another type (kind) within the same class.
synonymynoun(semantics) A certain degree of similarity between the meaning(s) of several (synonymous) words or phrases. (See Usage notes below.)
synonymitynounThe state of being a synonym.
autohyponymnounA word that is a hyponym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a stricter subsense whose denotation is entirely a subset of a broader sense.
synonymicsnounSynonym of synonymy (the study of synonyms)
syn.nounAbbreviation of synonym. [(semantics) A term (word or phrase) which is synonymous with others.]
cohyponymnoun(semantics) Synonym of coordinate term.

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