synonym
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From Middle English sinonyme, from Latin synōnymum, from Ancient Greek συνώνυμον (sunṓnumon), neuter singular form of συνώνυμος (sunṓnumos, “synonymous”), from σύν (sún, “with”) + ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”). By surface analysis, syn- + -onym.
Inflected forms:
form: synonyms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: synonime
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: synonyme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: synonyms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: synonyming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: synonymed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: synonymed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: synonime
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: synonyme
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A term (word or phrase) which is synonymous with others.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: near-synonym, parasynonym, plesionym
“Happy” is a synonym of “glad”.
The proportion of English words that have an exact synonym is small.
It's quite the turnaround from only a few months ago when Michael Kors (KORS) sales were sagging and its stock was tanking. Experts said the brand was "overexposed," a synonym for ugly in the fashion world.
According to the petition, posted on Change.org, the venerable publisher, which produces the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), offers a series of synonyms for woman, including “bitch, besom, piece, bit, mare, baggage, wench, petticoat, frail, bird, bint, biddy, filly.”
gloss: Any of the various names that could in theory be used for a taxon in accordance with the relevant rules.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: Any of the various names that could in theory be used for a taxon in accordance with the relevant rules.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: An alternative (often shorter) name defined for an object in a database.
pos: noun
examples: Synonyms are part of the SQL standard and are used frequently by Oracle DBAs. Note that Oracle includes both private and public synonyms.
gloss: To make synonymous.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The fair fame of this good Knight has suffered greatly from the levity of his critics, and still more from the chattering of nugators, blatterones, sermocinators, and other superficial dignitaries; insomuch that his very name is synonymed with that of a liar.
[…] if that properly belongs to the Saltatorii section, which Fabricius seems to believe by his synonyming it with his C. Viminalis […]
Synonyms: synonymum
Related words: coordinate term
cohyponym
comeronym
hypernym
hyperonym
hyponym
metonym
synechdoche
antiphrasis
identical
same
homophone & homograph
homophone
different
homophone & heterograph
alternative spelling
homonym
heterophone & heterograph
heteronym
heterophone & homograph
alternative pronunciation
distinct
Derived words: desynonymization
geosynonym
heterotypic synonym
homotypic synonym
junior synonym
near-synonym
nomenclatural synonym
objective synonym
parasynonym
quasi-synonym
slangonym
subjective synonym
synanagram
synonymal
synonymic
synonymical
synonymification
synonymise
synonymist
synonymity
synonymize
synonymless
synonymomania
synonymous
synonym ring
synonymy
taxonomic synonym
textonym
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: synonymum
lang: Dutch
word: synoniem
lang: Finnish
word: synonyymi
lang: Galician
word: sinónimo
lang: Japanese
word: シノニム
roman: shinonimu
lang: Japanese
word: 異名
roman: imei
lang: Portuguese
word: sinónimo
lang: Portuguese
word: sinônimo
lang: Swahili
word: sinonimu
lang: Swedish
word: synonym
lang: Swedish
word: vetenskaplig synonym
lang: Swedish
word: namnsynonym
lang: Czech
word: synonymum
lang: Dutch
word: synoniem
lang: Finnish
word: synonyymi
lang: Galician
word: sinónimo
lang: Japanese
word: シノニム
roman: shinonimu
lang: Japanese
word: 異名
roman: imei
lang: Portuguese
word: sinónimo
lang: Portuguese
word: sinônimo
lang: Swahili
word: sinonimu
lang: Swedish
word: synonym
lang: Swedish
word: vetenskaplig synonym
lang: Swedish
word: namnsynonym