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Meaning of "hypernym" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HYPERNYM

Hyper- + Greek onoma name.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF HYPERNYM

ˈhaɪpəˌnɪm


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HYPERNYM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hypernym is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HYPERNYM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hyponymy and hypernymy

In linguistics, a hyponym is a word or phrase whose semantic field is included within that of another word, its hypernym. In simpler terms, a hyponym shares a type-of relationship with its hypernym. For example, "pigeon", "crow", "eagle" and "seagull" are all hyponyms of "bird"; which, in turn, is a hyponym of "animal".

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HYPERNYM

autonym · caconym · eponym · ethnonym · exonym · heteronym · meronym · mononym · paranym · pseudonym · textonym

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HYPERNYM

hypermobility · hypermodern · hypermodern school · hypermodernism · hypermodernist · hypermutability · hypermutable · hypernatraemia · hypernova · hypernovae · hypernymy · hyperon · hyperope · hyperopia · hyperopic · hyperorexia · hyperosmia · hyperostoses · hyperostosis · hyperostotic

WORDS THAT END LIKE HYPERNYM

allonym · anonym · antonym · cohyponym · cryptonym · homonym · hyponym · metonym · paronym · polyonym · retronym · synonym · tautonym · toponym

Synonyms and antonyms of hypernym in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hypernym» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF HYPERNYM

Find out the translation of hypernym to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of hypernym from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hypernym» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

上位词
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

hypernym
570 millions of speakers
en

English

hypernym
510 millions of speakers
hi

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hypernym
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

hypernym
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

hypernym
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

hiperonímia
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

hypernym
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

hypernym
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Hypernym
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

hypernym
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

上位語
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

상위어
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Hypernym
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hypernym
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

ஹெபர்னிம்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

हायपरनीम
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

hypernym
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

iperonimo
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

hypernym
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

hypernym
40 millions of speakers
ro

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hypernym
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Hypernym
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hypernym
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hyperonym
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hypernym
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hypernym

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HYPERNYM»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hypernym

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPERNYM»

Discover the use of hypernym in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hypernym and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Data Analysis, Machine Learning and Applications: ...
According to Lyons (1977) hyponymy is the relation which holds between a more specific lexeme (i.e. a hyponym) and a more general one (i.e. a hypernym). E.g. animal is a hypernym of cat. Hypernym Extraction (HE) is applied in cases where  ...
Christine Preisach, Hans Burkhardt, Lars Schmidt-Thieme, 2008
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Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering ...
Function (3) is a sigmoid one with a steepness value including both the frequency and the depth of the hypernym. For large depth · frequency combinations, the weight of the hypernym reaches closer and closer to 1 (neither f nor d can be ...
Rossitza Setchi, Ivan Jordanov, Lakhmi C. Jain, 2010
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Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering ...
Sample of tuples of the table of hyponym-hypernym pairs is transformed to its singular form if necessary, and it is assigned to the entry of the corresponding instance as its hypernym. Finally, both elements (hyponym and hypernym) are stored ...
Juan D. Velásquez, Sebastián A. Ríos, Robert J. Howlett, 2009
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Recent Advances in Computational Terminology
Let us examine the elements of an explanatory context in terms of its “sides”, the missing hypernym, and the characteristics. “Sides”. The notion of a “left-hand side ” or “right-hand side” can be as evident as it is for defining contexts (e.g., (2a,b)).
Didier Bourigault, Christian Jacquemin, Marie-Claude L'Homme, 2001
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Intelligence and Security Informatics: IEEE International ...
Sharad Mehrotra. This turns out to be exactly wrong – the actual behavior is the other way around, and considerably more subtle. The hypernym of a word has its own hypernym, and original word also has a hyponym, a more specialized word,  ...
Sharad Mehrotra, 2006
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Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge ...
First International Joint Conference, IC3K 2009, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, October 6-8, 2009, Revised Selected Papers Ana Fred, Jan L. G. Dietz, Kecheng Liu, Joaquim Filipe. Sequential Supervised Learning for Hypernym Discovery from ...
Ana Fred, Jan L. G. Dietz, Kecheng Liu, 2011
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Biomedical Information Technology
A simple example is that ''body temperature elevation'' is a hypernym of ''fever.'' Hypernym relations are transitive [25]. For example, ''sign and symptom'' is a hypernym of ''body temperature change,'' and ''body temperature change'' is a ...
David Dagan Feng, 2011
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Soft Computing in Ontologies and Semantic Web
Having a domain of 1 0accv , accv is inversely proportional to the number of senses in c that have the hypernym ac . If 0 accv , then there is no ambiguity or vagueness to the concept, meaning that all senses of c generalize to the concept ac ...
Zongmin Ma, 2006
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Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 17th ...
Detection of a Facet Name: Pairs of a hypernym and a set of coordinate terms are constructed using t ∈ T. A detected hypernym and coordinate terms correspond to a facet name and category names, respectively. 3. Validation of Facets: The ...
Sang-goo Lee, Zhiyong Peng, Xiaofang Zhou, 2012
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Progress in WWW Research and Development: 10th Asia-Pacific ...
Table 3 shows the acceptable candidates with their rank for each target concept by syntactic pattern based, property inheritance based (n =3,10), or hybrid (n =3, 10) hypernym extraction. Figure 4 shows the 21-point interpolated average ...
Yanchun Zhang, Ge Yu, Elisa Bertino, 2008

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HYPERNYM»

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Until very recently I had never heard of BIID, nor had I come across the related hypernym 'transabled'. Sean defines BIID as being... "... hard to ... «Huffington Post UK, Dec 12»
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Garry Kasparov launches – a new search engine
Hypernyms: A word that has a more general meaning than another; e.g. in the relationship between chair and furniture, furniture is a hypernym; ... «Chessbase News, Mar 06»
REFERENCE
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