Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

autohypernym en · NOUN

Etymology

From auto- + hypernym; by surface analysis, auto- + hyper- + -nym.

Meanings

A word that is a hypernym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a broader secondary sense whose denotation is a superset of what the stricter main sense denotes.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
autohypernyms	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Coordinates

Hypernyms

polyseme · term · word

Relateds

strictly speaking · comeronym · autohypernymy · hypernymy · autohyponymy · cohyponym · stricto sensu · hyponymy