superclass

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

Noun

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

    Synonyms: base class parent class

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

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- English class English superclass From super- + class.

Forms

superclasses super class

Synonyms

superset

Antonyms

subclass subset

Hypernyms

class

Verb

  1. To create a superclass of.
    • Applications incorporating superclassing "clean up" by calling UnregisterClass on all superclassed classes. - 2001, Stephen Teilhet, Subclassing and Hooking With Visual Basic, page 223:

Forms

superclasses superclassing superclassed super class

Related

abstract type base class interface