Hypernyms for "dressing"
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anchovy dressing
bandage
bleu cheese dressing
blue cheese dressing
cataplasm
compress
farce
forcemeat
French dressing
half-and-half dressing
investment
Italian dressing
Lorenzo dressing
mayo
mayonnaise
oyster dressing
oyster stuffing
patch
plaster
poultice
primping
Roquefort dressing
Russian dressing
Russian mayonnaise
salad cream
sauce Louis
sauce vinaigrette
surgical dressing
Thousand Island dressing
toilet
toilette
top dressing
turkey stuffing
vinaigrette
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.