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  1. hypernyms: Wiktionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (hypernym)

noun:  (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.
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