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byword

/bahy-wurd/US // ˈbaɪˌwɜrd //UK // (ˈbaɪˌwɜːd) //

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a word or phrase associated with some person or thing; a characteristic expression, typical greeting, or the like.
    • : a word or phrase used proverbially; common saying; proverb.
    • : an object of general reproach, derision, scorn, etc.: His crimes will make him a byword through the ages.
    • : an epithet, often of scorn.

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Examples

  • Friedman said “caution has been a byword” in his long handling of the case but it was time for Hinckley to be set free.

  • Flying cars are almost a byword for the misplaced optimism of technologists, but recent news suggests their future may be on slightly firmer footing.

  • Robinhood, the brokerage that has become a byword for the boom in retail trading, is planning to go public.

  • Soon their sweeping machine was outselling their cups and saucers and Bissell became a byword for floor cleaners—by royal appointment too!

  • It was a ghastly tragedy that rattled a nation and became a byword for anti-Semitism in France.

  • At a time when “right to work” has become a byword for union-busting, this is radical indeed.

  • Syndicated columnist Dan Savage even campaigned to turn “santorum” into a byword for sexual waste as revenge.

  • By Leo Mirani Drones have a terrible reputation, mostly because they have become a byword for death and destruction.

  • But he marred it all by a temper so ungovernable that in Paris there was current a byword, "Explosive as Garnache."

  • For years the names of oil king and iron master have been a hissing and a byword among the hot-heads in America.

  • A prince may be the byword of all Europe, yet he alone know nothing of it.

  • And besides, when folk talk of a country covered with troops, it's but a kind of a byword at the best.

  • Had not the justice of the strong become a byword and a loathing?