Hypernyms for "grouping"
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accumulation
actinide
actinoid
actinon
aggregation
arrangement
assemblage
assembling
association
assortment
biological group
biotic community
categorisation
categorization
circuit
citizenry
classification
cloud
collecting
collection
community
compartmentalisation
compartmentalization
edition
electron shell
ethnic group
ethnos
halogen
hoi polloi
human beings
human race
humanity
humankind
humans
kingdom
lanthanide
lanthanoid
lanthanon
man
mankind
mass
masses
multitude
pairing
people
phrasing
population
punctuation
race
rare earth
rare-earth element
sainthood
scheme
series
social group
sorting
straggle
subgroup
swarm
system
the great unwashed
varna
world
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.