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synonymic

/sin-uh-nim/US // ˈsɪn ə nɪm //UK // (ˈsɪnənɪm) //

同义词,近义词,异名,同义字

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as happy, joyful, elated. A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms, such as Thesaurus.com, is called a thesaurus.
    • : a word or expression accepted as another name for something, as Arcadia for pastoral simplicity or Wall Street for U.S. financial markets; metonym.
    • : Biology. one of two or more scientific names applied to a single taxon.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • I think that the word “country” is a synonym for so many other words.

  • As a synonym for “nonsense,” bunk proved to be just the sort of satisfying, blunt word users crave.

  • Most importantly, foreign policy should not be reduced to a synonym for military action and covert operations.

  • Less canonically, “natural marriage” is also at times used as a rough synonym for “common-law marriage.”

  • It's a telling tic that we often use "urban" as a synonym for "black."

  • My students seem to really want to use “however” as a conjunction—more or less a synonym for “but.”

  • A synonym given for submissive is “compliant,” and among those given for submit is “yield” and “defer.”

  • One of the most beautiful symbols of the Catacombs is the dove, the perpetual synonym of peace.

  • It came to mean an entertainment of music and dancing, and was used as a synonym for masquerades.

  • Another synonym of tonos which becomes very common in the later writers on music is the word tropos.

  • Change the structure of the sentence, substitute one synonym for another, and the whole effect is destroyed.

  • The profits were beyond all reason, and the word publican became a synonym for sinner.