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What is the hypernym for left and right?
What is the hypernym for north, east, south, west?
@Acer "cardinal direction" for north + east + south + west. Maybe "handedness" for the other pair, but that implies only a subset of the possible meanings of the original terms.
@Acer what's a hypernym
e.g.
fruit is a hypernym of apple, pear, peach, and banana.
animal is a hypernym of snake, human, dog, and cat.
@Acer I love this word! I haven't seen it used before
@Acer in English "directions" could be used for all of these, but "points of the compass" or "compass directions" for the last four..