Usually means: Broader category word, higher abstraction.
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  1. hypernym: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. hypernym: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hypernym: Vocabulary.com
  4. hypernym: Wordnik
  5. hypernym: Wiktionary
  6. hypernym: Dictionary.com
  7. Hypernym: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. hypernym: Rhymezone
  9. hypernym: FreeDictionary.org
  10. hypernym: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. hypernym: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. hypernym: TheFreeDictionary.com

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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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