Definition of hypernym in English:
hypernym
noun ˈhʌɪpənɪmˈhaɪpərˌnɪm
A word with a broad meaning constituting a category into which words with more specific meanings fall; a superordinate. For example, colour is a hypernym of red.
Contrasted with hyponym
Example sentencesExamples
- We evaluate the various approaches comparing their hypernym suggestion with the Dutch part of EuroWordNet.
- The WordNet online interface lets you browse the synonyms and hypernyms (X is a hypernym of Y if Y is a type of X) of far too many words.
- If you are using the WordNet package, you should be using program code to do recursive accesses into the data tables, descending down the hypernym tree.
- In fact, adding proper hypernyms to a synset can dramatically increase the inherited properties of that synset.
- This was done to handle senses that WordNet defines as hypernyms of themselves - either directly or indirectly.
Origin
1970s: from hyper- 'beyond' + -onym.
Definition of hypernym in US English:
hypernym
nounˈhaɪpərˌnɪmˈhīpərˌnim
A word with a broad meaning that more specific words fall under; a superordinate. For example, color is a hypernym of red.
Contrasted with hyponym
Example sentencesExamples
- The WordNet online interface lets you browse the synonyms and hypernyms (X is a hypernym of Y if Y is a type of X) of far too many words.
- If you are using the WordNet package, you should be using program code to do recursive accesses into the data tables, descending down the hypernym tree.
- We evaluate the various approaches comparing their hypernym suggestion with the Dutch part of EuroWordNet.
- This was done to handle senses that WordNet defines as hypernyms of themselves - either directly or indirectly.
- In fact, adding proper hypernyms to a synset can dramatically increase the inherited properties of that synset.
Origin
1970s: from hyper- ‘beyond’ + -onym.