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Sound
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noun
A certain degree of similarity between the meaning(s) of several (synonymous) words or phrases. (See Usage notes below.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, semantics
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Synonyms: homosemy, synonymity, synonymousness
Antonyms: nonsynonymy, antonymy
noun
A list or collection of synonyms, often compared and contrasted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The use of synonyms to clarify or explain one's meaning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rhetoric, uncountable
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Synonyms: interpretatio, interpreter, synonymia
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The study of synonyms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: synonymics
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A system of synonyms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The state of not being the name to be used, of being a synonym.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, taxonomy
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A group or list of synonyms.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, taxonomy
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: synonymity, synonymousness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: semantic relation
History
From French synonymie and its etymon Late Latin synōnymia, from Ancient Greek συνωνυμία (sunōnumía), from συνώνυμος (sunṓnumos, “of like name”) + -ία (-ía, abstract noun suffix). By surface analysis, synonym + -y or syn- + -onymy. Doublet of synonymia.
Across languages
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
