superordinate
IPA: supɝˈɔrdʌnʌt
noun
- That which is superordinate.
- (linguistics) A hypernym.
verb
- (transitive) To cause to be superordinate.
adjective
- Greater in degree, rank or position.
- (logic) The relation of a universal proposition to a specific proposition of the same form with the universal quantified variable replaced by a specific instance.
- (linguistics, of a word or phrase) hypernymic
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Examples of "superordinate" in Sentences
- KUCERA superordinate term of the relation.
- Irony is the superordinate category, not sarcasm.
- But again the superordinate issue of detail arises.
- They are the first of the superordinate issues, in fact.
- These tasks are referred to in the study as superordinate goals.
- A correct superordinate might be 'transposition', but I'm not sure about that.
- The first of these is that superordinate nodes in the meaning of the paragraph will be recalled more frequently than subordinate nodes.
- This cannot be accounted for by the previous definition of object perspective unless each of the objects under discussion can be said to have the same superordinate.
- These attributes are a potential source of the misconception since an object that shares many attributes with a superordinate is likely to belong to that superordinate class.