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What does hyperonym mean?

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Noun
  1. (linguistics) Hypernym; superordinate term.
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Cross-lingual linking indicates complete equivalence, near-equivalence, or equivalence-as-a-hyponym or hyperonym.
No hyponym displayed a particularly large coincidence between the collocate clusters of the hyperonym and those of its own.
A hyponymic relationship can be observed between inimene 'human being' as a hyperonym and all the rest of the words analysed, which are all hyponyms of inimene.
If the meaning of the word in question is a hyponym of a corresponding hyperonym, the latter necessarily functions as an identification or a classification seme of the former.
A glance at the generic denominations will show that culver, which appears as the hyperonym in Old English, is now considered rare or archaic.

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