first vs superordinate

first

adj
  • Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest. 

  • Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest. 

  • Of or belonging to a first family. 

adv
  • For the first time. 

  • Before anything else; firstly. 

  • Now. 

noun
  • first base 

  • A first-edition copy of some publication. 

  • A fraction whose (integer) denominator ends in the digit 1. 

  • The first gear of an engine. 

  • Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence. 

  • A first-class honours degree. 

  • The person or thing in the first position. 

superordinate

adj
  • Greater in degree, rank or position. 

  • The relation of a universal proposition to a specific proposition of the same form with the universal quantified variable replaced by a specific instance. 

  • hypernymic 

noun
  • That which is superordinate. 

  • A hypernym. 

verb
  • To cause to be superordinate. 

How often have the words first and superordinate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )