Term: ladder: ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: outside: the outer side or surface of something → 0
Candidate hypernym: man of letters: a man devoted to literary or scholarly activities → 0
Candidate hypernym: hardness: the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale → 0
Candidate hypernym: unsoundness: a misconception that is fallacious and not true or valid → 0
Candidate hypernym: hour angle: (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing; the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day → 0
Candidate hypernym: whitebait: minnows or other small fresh- or saltwater fish (especially herring); usually cooked whole → 0
Candidate hypernym: gymnosporangium: genus of fungi that produce galls on cedars and other conifers of genera Juniperus and Libocedrus and causes rust spots on apples and pears and other plants of family Rosaceae → 0
Candidate hypernym: cuminum: cumin → 0
Candidate hypernym: series: similar things placed in order or happening one after another → 0
Candidate hypernym: water lobelia: erect perennial aquatic herb of Europe and North America having submerged spongy leaves and pendulous racemes of blue flowers above the water → 0