Most models in recent years are not made with/for word level representation. Therefore, as you suggest, you need to use older word level emebedding models suc

Most models in recent years are not made with/for word level representation. Therefore, as you suggest, you need to use older word level emebedding models such as word2vec etc. You can just do "cow" - "animal" and search for the words similar to the vector, using libralies such as gensim in Python.