autohypernym

== English == === Etymology === From auto- +‎ hypernym; by surface analysis, auto- +‎ hyper- +‎ -nym. === Noun === autohypernym (plural autohypernyms) 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 ==== Related terms ==== autohypernymy, autohyponymy hypernymy, hyponymy cohyponym (sharing a hypernym) comeronym (sharing a holonym) ==== See also ====