Hypernyms for "conjunction"
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adversative conjunction
anastomosis
barrier strip
concomitance
contact
contemporaneity
contemporaneousness
coordinating conjunction
copulative conjunction
disjunctive conjunction
inferior conjunction
inosculation
joint
junction barrier
overlap
splice
splicing
subordinate conjunction
subordinating conjunction
superior conjunction
synapse
tangency
thermojunction
unison
What are hypernyms?
Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.
Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.