autohypernym

English

Examples
  • man (“masculine human”) or
    man (“humankind”)
  • More: see Category:English autohyponyms

Etymology

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

Noun

autohypernym (plural autohypernyms)

  1. 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.
    Hypernyms: polyseme < word < term
    Coordinate term: autohyponym

See also

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