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superclass

noun

  1. A high-level class that passes attributes and methods down the hierarchy to subclasses.

  2. A taxon ranking below a phylum and above a class.

Synonymsbase class, parent class, superset
Antonymssubclass, subset
verb

  1. To create a superclass of.

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