Crossword clues for superordinate
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, on model of subordinate with super-. Related: Superordination.
Wiktionary
1 Greater in degree, rank or position 2 (context logic English) The relation of a universal proposition to a specific proposition of the same form with the universal quantified variable replaced by a specific instance. 3 (context linguistics of a word or phrase English) hypernymic n. 1 That which is superordinate. 2 (context linguistics English) A hypernym. v
(context transitive English) To cause to be superordinate.
WordNet
adj. of higher rank or status or value
n. one of greater rank or station or quality [syn: superior, higher-up] [ant: inferior]
a word that is more generic than a given word [syn: hypernym, superordinate word]
v. place in a superior order or rank; "These two notions are superordinated to a third"
Wikipedia
Superordinate may refer to:
- In metadata analysis and linguistics, an element of analytical relationship-classification schemes
- Superordinate goals, in psychology, those goals that further other specified goals
- Hypernymy, in the context of linguistic hyponymy and hypernymy
Usage examples of "superordinate".
That is to say, not only does the individual member of our species, conscious of himself as such, face death, but he confronts also the necessity to adapt himself to whatever order of life may happen to be that of the community into which he has been born, this being an order of life superordinated to his own, a super-organism into which he must allow himself to be absorbed, and through participation in which he will come to know the life that transcends death.