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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: polyseme, word, term
History
From auto- + hypernym; by surface analysis, auto- + hyper- + -nym.
