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synonymy
  1. (semantics) The quality of being synonymous; sameness of meaning.
  2. A list or collection of synonyms, often compared and contrasted.
  3. The study of synonyms.
  4. A system of synonyms.
  5. (botany) The collective synonyms (all the names referring to a particular taxon, except the correct name)
  6. (botany) The state of not being a correct name, of being a synonym
  7. (zoology) The collective synonyms (all the names referring to the same taxon, including the correct name)
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “We have relations of meaning such as synonymy and antonymy, polysemy and homonymy, ways of organizing the vocabulary.”
      “The synonymy of 'try' and 'attempt' suggests you feel the thread hasn't been successful.”
      “All we need to do is alter our formula for hyponymy slightly and we come up with another formula for synonymy.”
synonym
  1. (semantics) A word whose meaning is the same as that of another word.
  2. (semantics) A word or phrase with a meaning that is the same as, or very similar to, another word or phrase.
  3. (zoology) Any of the formal names for a taxon, including the valid name (i.e. the senior synonym).
  4. (botany) Any name for a taxon, usually a validly published, formally accepted one, but often also an unpublished name.
  5. (databases) An alternative (often shorter) name defined for an object in a database.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “Since then, she's been reclusive, stand-offish, and another synonym for those two words.”
      “He points out that I used hue in the sub-title of my article about colour words almost as a synonym for colour.”
      “Many persons persist with the earlier, naive, view that the role of a definition is only to offer a synonym for the term to be defined.”
synonymification
  1. The collapsing together of more or less synonymous words into one common linguistic category.
synonymization
  1. The action, or the result of synonymizing (especially of taxa).
synonymousness
  1. The quality of being synonymous.
  2. Synonyms:
synonymist
  1. A person who studies synonyms.
synonymity
  1. The state of being a synonym.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The synonymity between the terms 'happy' and 'joyful' allows for them to be used interchangeably in this context.”
      “You can bet that it ended up suggesting a synonymity of liquor with very good times to a much younger age group and a far wider social spectrum.”
      “Most likely to: Sing a song about the synonymity of intercourse and violation.”
synonime
  1. Obsolete form of synonym.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Now look out in the GRADUS for Purus, and you find as the first synonime, lacteus, for coloratus, and the first synonime is purpureus.”
synonyme
  1. Obsolete form of synonym.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In this lovely salon you will find delights such as Armani Collezione, Emporio Armani, Ralph Lauren Black Label, Georges Reche and Synonyme and John Smedley knitwear.”
synonyma
  1. (obsolete) synonyms
synonymizations
  1. plural of synonymization
synonymists
  1. plural of synonymist
synonymities
synonimes
  1. plural of synonime
synonymes
  1. plural of synonyme
synonymies
  1. plural of synonymy
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The former deals with the structure and classification of birds, their synonymies and technical descriptions.”
      “Known under numerous synonymies applied to various parthenogenetic and polyploid morphs, differing in the shape and position of tubercula pubertatis.”
synonyms
  1. plural of synonym
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It was years after retirement before I realized that rather than thinking of them as near synonyms that they were antonyms.”
      “It also catches dictionary and thesaurus sites and sends back deliberate misspellings, antonyms instead of synonyms, etc.”
      “The changes included using study sets comprising synonyms, rhymes, or unrelated words.”
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