hypersentence

English

Etymology

hyper- +‎ sentence

Noun

hypersentence (plural hypersentences)

  1. (linguistics) An implicit sentence containing an explicit sentence.
    The sentence “Hand me that” may be said to entail the hypersentence “I'm telling you to hand me that.”

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