n. A word or phrase whose referents form a set including as a subset the referents of a subordinate term.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. a word that is more generic or more abstract than a given word; a word designating a class of which the given word is a member. Inverse of subtype and hyponym.
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n. a word that is more generic than a given word
Word Usage
"A friend has a hypernym for niece-or-nephew: "nibling"."