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A hypernym is a word that represents a broad category or a general concept. It's like the big umbrella term that covers a group of related things. For example, ‘fruit’ is a hypernym where it encompasses various types of fruit, such as apples, bananas, oranges, grapes, peaches and melons.
- Examples and Observations
- Hypernyms, Hyponyms, and Connotations
- A Method of Definition
(Jan McAllister and James E. Miller, Introductory Linguistics for Speech and Language Therapy Practice. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) (Laurie Beth Feldman, Morphological Aspects of Language Processing. Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995) (Keith M. Denning, Brett Kessler, and William Ronald Leben, English Vocabulary Elements. Oxford University Press, 2007)
(Maggie Bowring et al., Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis. Routledge, 1997)
(David Crystal, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language. Cambridge University Press, 2003) Alternate Spellings: hyperonym
- Richard Nordquist
A hypernym describes a more broad term, for example cutlery, or dog. A hyponym is a more specialised and specific word, for example: spoon would be a hyponym of cutlery and labrador would be a hyponym of dog.
A hyponym is a word or phrase whose semantic field is more specific than its hypernym. The semantic field of a hypernym, also known as a superordinate, is broader than that of a hyponym. An approach to the relationship between hyponyms and hypernyms is to view a hypernym as consisting of hyponyms.
a relationship between words in which the meaning of one word includes the meaning of others which are closely related. The word derives from the Greek meanings of under and name. The superordinate or hypernym is the word which includes the meanings of all the others The hyponyms are all the second-level words which are related to each other. Thus:
Hypernym is a synonym of hyperonym. As nouns the difference between hyperonym and hypernym is that hyperonym is hypernym; superordinate term while hypernym is a word or phrase whose referents form a set including as a subset the referents of a subordinate term.
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A hyponym is a word or phrase whose semantic field is more specific than its hypernym. The semantic field of a hypernym, also known as a superordinate, is broader than that of a hyponym. An approach to the relationship between hyponyms and hypernyms is to view a hypernym as consisting of hyponyms.
