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What is a byword?

What is a byword? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase.
  2. A characteristic word or expression; a word or phrase associated with a person or group.
  3. Someone or something that stands as an example (i.e. metonymically) for something else, by having some of that something's characteristic traits.
  4. An object of notoriety or contempt, scorn or derision.
  5. A nickname or epithet.
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It has become a magnet for avant-gardists who want to hang out in a place that has become a byword for New York's alternative arts scene.
The cloak of senatorial courtesy has become a stench in the nostrils and a byword in the mouths of all honest citizens of the land.
His intense, poetic depictions of northern scenery have become a byword for a melancholic, spiritually inspired attitude to nature.
Garbage piled up in the streets and the place became a byword for dirt and danger.
The American Revolutionary's 1748 remark stands as a byword for industrial capitalism's hurry-up ethic.
This site is becoming the byword for solid, objective commentary on technology companies for the growing number of technology stock investors.

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