Home › Words › S › supertopicsupertopicsupertopic means A topic that encompasses several other topics.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, supertopic ranks #2,167 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom super- + topic.nounA topic that encompasses several other topics.e.g.“On the other hand, shifts in contextual constraints are even greater at first-level boundaries, at the beginning of a story (in narration) or a supertopic (in elicitation).” — 1998, Andreas H. Jucker, Yael Ziv, Discourse Markers: Descriptions and Theory, page 46:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).