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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context [syn: equivalent word ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB become ▪ And then there is Euro Disney, which is fast becoming a synonym for Eurodisaster. ▪ Midas, whose name has become a synonym for a rich man, had very little profit from his riches. ▪ It should not have become ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"word having the same sense as another," early 15c. (but usually in plural form before 18c., or, if singular, as synonyma ), from Old French synonyme (12c.) and directly from Late Latin synonymum , from Greek synonymon "word having the same sense as another," ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A synonym is a word or phrase that means nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language. Words that are synonyms are said to be synonymous , and the state of being a synonym is called synonymy . The word comes from Ancient Greek syn ("with") ...
Usage examples of synonym.
Marriage and Snake were antonyms, but LeAnne and Marcus were synonyms.
Ransaran was riddled with irregular verb forms, homonyms, synonyms, irregular spellings, nonstandard pronunciations, and appropriations from every other major language.
Meanwhile, TTT, which made phenylalanine, coded for a nucleotide insertion, while its synonym TTC was the instruction for a nucleotide deletion.
Bell the psychogeneticist says, overspecialization, be it mental, as in the human scientist, or dental, as in the saber-tooth tiger, is just a synonym for extinction.
Our purpose for so doing is to see if it is possible to base the relationship which now exists between the two races in the South, upon all the synonyms or any one of them.
Second distinguished the meanings of the two words, the racier Third Edition listed them as synonyms.
Italian abounds in synonyms, while French is lamentably deficient in this respect.
He has trouble finding the word, and sometimes he thinks he's got it, but what comes out will be synonyms, or antonyms, or taboo words.
He has trouble finding the word, and sometimes he thinks he’s got it, but what comes out will be synonyms, or antonyms, or taboo words.
While Chaplain Townsend preached about the calling of Abram, Dykstra wondered about the place of the Phinons—the project name was now a synonym for the aliens—in the cosmological order, particularly if they were intelligent yet lacked souls.
Thereupon, the ordinary tongue gives camouflet as the synonym for soufflet.
He was of course transfixed by any incidence of the word alcohol, and all its cognates and synonyms and homonyms.
I'd lie in bed panicked during school hours amid piles of ill-gotten Mad magazines and Creeple Peeple figures and listen to the lonely handheld bells of the Salvation Army Santas on the street below and think of synonyms for dread and doom.
The name of the noted and notorious Florentine family has become a synonym for intrigue and violence, and yet the Borgias have not been without stanch defenders in history.
However, 'tyr' as a common noun is a synonym in Old Norse for 'god.