synonymn.

Brit.

/ˈsɪnənɪm/, U.S.

/ˈsɪnəˌnɪm/

Forms: see below.

Etymology: < classical Latin synōnymum, synōnymon < ancient Greek συνώνυμον , use as noun of neuter singular of συνώνυμος < σύν syn- prefix + -ωνυμ- (as in νώνυμ(ν)ος , ἀνώνυμος nameless, anonymous adj.) = ὄνομα name n. Compare French synonyme, †sinonime (12th cent.), Italian sinonimo, Spanish sinonimo, Portuguese synonymo. The earliest instances are plural (after Latin synonyma, Greek συνώνυμα), anglicized sinonymes, synonymes, in Latin or Græco-Latin form synonyma, synonuma, incorrectly with addition of plural -s, synonymas (whence a rare spurious singular synonyma). The anglicized singular synonym(e scarcely makes its appearance, except in dictionaries, till the close of the 18th century.

1. Strictly, a word having the same sense as another (in the same language); but more usually, either or any of two or more words (in the same language) having the same general sense, but possessing each of them meanings which are not shared by the other or others, or having different shades of meaning or implications appropriate to different contexts: e.g. serpent, snake; ship, vessel; compassion, fellow-feeling, sympathy; enormous, excessive, immense; glad, happy, joyful, joyous; to kill, slay, slaughter; to grieve, mourn, lament, sorrow. Const. for, of, †formerly to, with.In quot. ?a1475 at sense 1aα. sinonymes is a rendering of the title of Isidore's work Synonyma de lamentatione animae peccatricis, where it denotes identical ideas expressed in different ways in the course of the work: cf. Old French sinonimes (12th cent. in Romania, 1876, V. 275).

a. Plural.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > synonymy > [noun] > synonym

synonym?a1475

synonymy1609

equivalent1651

synonymal1662

duplicate1839

α. Middle English sinonymes, 1500s–1800s synonymes, 1700s synonimes, 1700s– synonyms.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 51 Isidorus..lefte noble werkes..as the books of his Ethimologies,..of the ordre of creatures, sinonymes, and mony oþer þinges.

1540 J. Palsgrave in tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus Epistle sig. Aiij^v Theyr yong scholers..be forced to falle a glosynge..of their latyn bokes..of dyuers englishe wordes..beinge synonymes..they chuse moste commonly the very worste.

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. xiii. §25. 41 b If the Father and the Sonne were Synonymes or seuerall names signifying one thyng.

1715 R. Bentley Serm. Popery 4 Hesychius makes them [sc. καπηλεύοντες and δολῶντες] Synonyms.

1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers i. i. 14 Most synonimes have some minute distinction that deserves notice.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1783 II. 447 Walker: ‘Do you think, Sir, that there are any perfect synonimes in any language?’ Johnson: ‘Originally there were not; but by using words negligently, or in poetry, one word comes to be confounded with another.’

1863 A. Bain Higher Eng. Gram. (1879) 73 Only, with the synonymes ‘solely’, ‘merely’, ‘alone’.

1867 F. M. Müller Chips from German Workshop II. xvi. 71 The more ancient a language, the richer it is in synonymes.

1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. i. 27 Another mode of arresting our attention and giving distinctness to the thought which has to be expressed is by setting two synonymes side by side.

1904 H. Bradley Making of Eng. v. 176 The notion of striking was expressed by the verb now pronounced slay, which survives only in a narrowed and developed meaning... Here,..German has kept the old word (schlagen), while English has rejected it for more vigorous synonyms.

β. 1500s–1600s synonoma, synonuma, 1500s–1800s synonyma, 1600s synonima.1573 G. Harvey Scholar's Love in Let.-bk. (Camden) 116 Those two, I take it, are Synonoma.1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 289 This Horsa, and his Brother Hengist (both whose names be Synonuma, and signifie a Horse).1585 C. Fetherston tr. J. Calvin Comm. Actes Apostles xiii. i. 290 It may be that they [sc. doctors and prophets] are in this place Synonyma, or that they signifie both one thing.1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Marque Marques and Reprizals are used as Synonima.1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. xii. 290 The words Weal, welfare, are mentioned as Synonoma.1673 P. Leycester Hist. Antiq. i. iii. 97 Dux and Consul in these Ages were Synonima.1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. i. 221 The barrenness of the Anglo-Saxon language may be seen in the fewness of its synonyma.γ. 1500s–1600s synonym-, -im-, -aes, 1500s–1700s -a's, -as, (1500s sunonimas), 1500s–1600s synonamaes, 1600s synonemas, sinonimaes.1594Sunonimas: [see sense 1d]. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 423 Better then Greeke with her Synonymaes, Fit Epithetes, and fine Metaphoraes.a1634 E. Coke 4th Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. (1648) 30 In the statute of 11 H. 4. Customes and Subsidies are used as Synonymaes.1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. 98 All the synonyma's of sadnesse were little enough to expresse this great weeping.1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 269 Nothing more common than to make Monks and Fryers both Synonyma's and reciprocall.1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. xix. 80 The corporal, wishing..the word and all its synonimas at the devil.1789 G. Campbell in tr. Four Gospels I. Diss. iv. 127 The use of such synonymas [as ἀπιστία and σκληροκαρδία].

b. Singular.

ΚΠ

α. 1500s synonomon, 1600s synonymum, 1600s–1700s synonymon.In quots. 1583 [see ]. , 1672 [see ]. perhaps to be taken as neuter adjective.

1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. i. 11 For them..whiche knowe..that Simulachrum is Synonomon with Imago.

1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. v. 26 Give me a synonymon for a gammon of bacon.

1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix (1713) 146 I need not note that Μνήμη was added as a synonymon of Μνημοσύνη.

1659 Termes de la Ley 352 Faitour..an evil doer, or an idle companion,..a Synonymon to Vagabond.

1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. xi. 125 Satyricalness, which is almost synonymum to wit.

β. 1500s sinonime, 1700s–1800s synonime, 1600s– synonyme(e.1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Sinomino, a sinonime, or word of one signification.1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iii. iv. 314 The last Combination doth consist of such as are..Expositive; either by Synonyme, or by Instance.1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. Dict. Synonym.1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. at Synonime A Synonym, or Synonyma.1801 G. Mason Suppl. to Johnson's Dict. Synonyme, a word of the same meaning as some other word. [Quot. from Reid has synonimes.]1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. App. p. xvi Worth was degraded into a lazy synonyme of value.1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 312 Change the structure of the sentence; substitute one synonyme for another, and the whole effect is destroyed.1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) A name, noun or other word having the same signification as another, is its synonym.1853 W. Gregory Inorg. Chem. (ed. 3) 25 The term atomic weight is used,..but only as a convenient synonym for the term equivalent.1869 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) ii. 69 We have also to consider the word Panachaioi... We cannot take it for a mere synonym of Achaioi.γ. 1600s synonima, 1700s synonyma.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Synonime, a Synonima. 1699 [see β. ]. 1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. i. vi. 172 The stress of the argument lies in a mere synonyma, or something equivalent.

c. spec. in Natural History. A systematic name having the same, or nearly the same, application as another, esp. as another which has superseded it.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > scientific or technical name > other spec.

synonym1659

book name1878

organonym1889

homonym1892

neuronym1897

1659 J. Ray Corr. (1848) 2 I shall give the names of all plants..in an alphabetical order, together with their synonyma.

1765 Museum Rusticum 4 441 Gramen typhinum majus, seu primum... Mr. Hudson then adds, as a synonym, Gramen typhinum medium s. vulgatissimum.

1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. Pref. p. xvi We cannot have too complete a catalogue of all the species..together with their synonyms.

1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. §184 We find a distinct generic name given as a synonym.

d. The equivalent of a word in another language.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > equivalent of a word in another language

synonym1594

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. E2^v Bidding a man boniure in germane sunonimas.

1804 A. Seward Mem. Dr. Darwin 202 Had life been used instead of its Latin synonym [printed synonism] ens.

2. By extension: A name or expression which involves or implies a meaning properly or literally expressed by some other; ‘another name for’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > another name for

synonym1632

the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > synonymy > [noun] > synonym > implying meaning literally expressed by other

synonym1632

1632 P. Massinger Emperour of East i. ii. sig. B3^v Informer... As I am the State scout, you may think me an informer. Master of the habit. They are Synonima.

1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 129 Abrahams bosom is made the synonymon (of the same import) with heaven.

1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 329 Nor of dishonour neither, which I suppose is the modern synonime with marriage.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 507 His [sc. William Penn's] name has..become..a synonyme for probity and philanthropy.

1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 229 This region [sc. Peru], whose name was so long a synonym for wealth and magnificence.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ix. §1. 602 ‘Hobbism’ became, ere he died, the popular synonym for irreligion and immorality.

1879 J. Lubbock Sci. Lect. v. 161 The word ferrum was employed in Latin as a synonym for a sword.

3. transferred. Either of two or more things of like or identical nature but called by different names, e.g. corresponding geological formations in different regions. (Cf. synonymity n. b.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > [noun] > formation > identity of formations having different names > formation identical but with a different name

synonym1839

1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. iv. 66 The formation differs essentially both from its type in the North of England, and from its foreign Synonyms.

4. loosely. A person of the same name as another; a ‘namesake’: = homonym n. 2.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > naming > [noun] > namesake one with same name

synonymy1612

namesakea1635

cognominal1646

name-daughter1712

name-son1712

name-child1789

synonym1837

homonym1851

1837 S. Smith Sir J. Mackintosh in Wks. (1850) 650/1 A Scotch cousin, who had mistaken me for my gallant synonym, the hero of Acre.

Compounds

C1. (in sense 1) synonym-pair.

ΚΠ

1980 Logophile 4 i. 28 I have been working for some time on an article about the curious existence in English and French of synonym-pairs.

C2.

synonym-compound n. (see quot. 1923).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [noun] > compounding > a compound > specific

augmentative1616

repetitive1810

bahuvrihi1846

dvandva compound1846

karmadharaya1846

tatpurusha1846

copulative compound1888

symphrase1893

synonym-compound1923

1923 B. Karlgren Sound & Symbol in Chinese iii. 32 The additions were of various kinds, the commonest and by far the most important of which was the formation of what may be called synonym-compounds. This consists in coupling together two simple words with the same or at least analogous meanings, words that formerly had been used alone.

1964 Language 40 104 The Chinese..invented tones to keep the monosyllables apart, and then synonym-compounds, further to clear up the difficulties they were now experiencing with their own language.

Derivatives

† ˈsynonym v. Obsolete rare (transitive) to designate by a synonym.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > synonymy > be synonymous with [verb (transitive)] > designate by a synonym

synonym1763

1763 E. M. da Costa in Philos. Trans. 1762 (Royal Soc.) 52 446 It is truly a kind of crystal, and might with propriety be synonymed Crystallus viridis columnaris lateribus inordinatis.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	synonym
释义	synonymn. Brit. /ˈsɪnənɪm/, U.S. /ˈsɪnəˌnɪm/ Forms: see below. Etymology: < classical Latin synōnymum, synōnymon < ancient Greek συνώνυμον , use as noun of neuter singular of συνώνυμος < σύν syn- prefix + -ωνυμ- (as in νώνυμ(ν)ος , ἀνώνυμος nameless, anonymous adj.) = ὄνομα name n. Compare French synonyme, †sinonime (12th cent.), Italian sinonimo, Spanish sinonimo, Portuguese synonymo. The earliest instances are plural (after Latin synonyma, Greek συνώνυμα), anglicized sinonymes, synonymes, in Latin or Græco-Latin form synonyma, synonuma, incorrectly with addition of plural -s, synonymas (whence a rare spurious singular synonyma). The anglicized singular synonym(e scarcely makes its appearance, except in dictionaries, till the close of the 18th century. 1. Strictly, a word having the same sense as another (in the same language); but more usually, either or any of two or more words (in the same language) having the same general sense, but possessing each of them meanings which are not shared by the other or others, or having different shades of meaning or implications appropriate to different contexts: e.g. serpent, snake; ship, vessel; compassion, fellow-feeling, sympathy; enormous, excessive, immense; glad, happy, joyful, joyous; to kill, slay, slaughter; to grieve, mourn, lament, sorrow. Const. for, of, †formerly to, with.In quot. ?a1475 at sense 1aα. sinonymes is a rendering of the title of Isidore's work Synonyma de lamentatione animae peccatricis, where it denotes identical ideas expressed in different ways in the course of the work: cf. Old French sinonimes (12th cent. in Romania, 1876, V. 275). a. Plural. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > synonymy > [noun] > synonym synonym?a1475 synonymy1609 equivalent1651 synonymal1662 duplicate1839 α. Middle English sinonymes, 1500s–1800s synonymes, 1700s synonimes, 1700s– synonyms. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 51 Isidorus..lefte noble werkes..as the books of his Ethimologies,..of the ordre of creatures, sinonymes, and mony oþer þinges. 1540 J. Palsgrave in tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus Epistle sig. Aiij^v Theyr yong scholers..be forced to falle a glosynge..of their latyn bokes..of dyuers englishe wordes..beinge synonymes..they chuse moste commonly the very worste. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. xiii. §25. 41 b If the Father and the Sonne were Synonymes or seuerall names signifying one thyng. 1715 R. Bentley Serm. Popery 4 Hesychius makes them [sc. καπηλεύοντες and δολῶντες] Synonyms. 1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers i. i. 14 Most synonimes have some minute distinction that deserves notice. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1783 II. 447 Walker: ‘Do you think, Sir, that there are any perfect synonimes in any language?’ Johnson: ‘Originally there were not; but by using words negligently, or in poetry, one word comes to be confounded with another.’ 1863 A. Bain Higher Eng. Gram. (1879) 73 Only, with the synonymes ‘solely’, ‘merely’, ‘alone’. 1867 F. M. Müller Chips from German Workshop II. xvi. 71 The more ancient a language, the richer it is in synonymes. 1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. i. 27 Another mode of arresting our attention and giving distinctness to the thought which has to be expressed is by setting two synonymes side by side. 1904 H. Bradley Making of Eng. v. 176 The notion of striking was expressed by the verb now pronounced slay, which survives only in a narrowed and developed meaning... Here,..German has kept the old word (schlagen), while English has rejected it for more vigorous synonyms. β. 1500s–1600s synonoma, synonuma, 1500s–1800s synonyma, 1600s synonima.1573 G. Harvey Scholar's Love in Let.-bk. (Camden) 116 Those two, I take it, are Synonoma.1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 289 This Horsa, and his Brother Hengist (both whose names be Synonuma, and signifie a Horse).1585 C. Fetherston tr. J. Calvin Comm. Actes Apostles xiii. i. 290 It may be that they [sc. doctors and prophets] are in this place Synonyma, or that they signifie both one thing.1656 T. Blount Glossographia at Marque Marques and Reprizals are used as Synonima.1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. xii. 290 The words Weal, welfare, are mentioned as Synonoma.1673 P. Leycester Hist. Antiq. i. iii. 97 Dux and Consul in these Ages were Synonima.1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. i. 221 The barrenness of the Anglo-Saxon language may be seen in the fewness of its synonyma.γ. 1500s–1600s synonym-, -im-, -aes, 1500s–1700s -a's, -as, (1500s sunonimas), 1500s–1600s synonamaes, 1600s synonemas, sinonimaes.1594Sunonimas: [see sense 1d]. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 423 Better then Greeke with her Synonymaes, Fit Epithetes, and fine Metaphoraes.a1634 E. Coke 4th Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. (1648) 30 In the statute of 11 H. 4. Customes and Subsidies are used as Synonymaes.1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. 98 All the synonyma's of sadnesse were little enough to expresse this great weeping.1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vi. 269 Nothing more common than to make Monks and Fryers both Synonyma's and reciprocall.1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. xix. 80 The corporal, wishing..the word and all its synonimas at the devil.1789 G. Campbell in tr. Four Gospels I. Diss. iv. 127 The use of such synonymas [as ἀπιστία and σκληροκαρδία]. b. Singular. ΚΠ α. 1500s synonomon, 1600s synonymum, 1600s–1700s synonymon.In quots. 1583 [see ]. , 1672 [see ]. perhaps to be taken as neuter adjective. 1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. i. 11 For them..whiche knowe..that Simulachrum is Synonomon with Imago. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. v. 26 Give me a synonymon for a gammon of bacon. 1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix (1713) 146 I need not note that Μνήμη was added as a synonymon of Μνημοσύνη. 1659 Termes de la Ley 352 Faitour..an evil doer, or an idle companion,..a Synonymon to Vagabond. 1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. xi. 125 Satyricalness, which is almost synonymum to wit. β. 1500s sinonime, 1700s–1800s synonime, 1600s– synonyme(e.1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Sinomino, a sinonime, or word of one signification.1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iii. iv. 314 The last Combination doth consist of such as are..Expositive; either by Synonyme, or by Instance.1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. Dict. Synonym.1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. at Synonime A Synonym, or Synonyma.1801 G. Mason Suppl. to Johnson's Dict. Synonyme, a word of the same meaning as some other word. [Quot. from Reid has synonimes.]1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. App. p. xvi Worth was degraded into a lazy synonyme of value.1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 312 Change the structure of the sentence; substitute one synonyme for another, and the whole effect is destroyed.1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) A name, noun or other word having the same signification as another, is its synonym.1853 W. Gregory Inorg. Chem. (ed. 3) 25 The term atomic weight is used,..but only as a convenient synonym for the term equivalent.1869 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) ii. 69 We have also to consider the word Panachaioi... We cannot take it for a mere synonym of Achaioi.γ. 1600s synonima, 1700s synonyma.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Synonime, a Synonima. 1699 [see β. ]. 1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. i. vi. 172 The stress of the argument lies in a mere synonyma, or something equivalent. c. spec. in Natural History. A systematic name having the same, or nearly the same, application as another, esp. as another which has superseded it. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > scientific or technical name > other spec. synonym1659 book name1878 organonym1889 homonym1892 neuronym1897 1659 J. Ray Corr. (1848) 2 I shall give the names of all plants..in an alphabetical order, together with their synonyma. 1765 Museum Rusticum 4 441 Gramen typhinum majus, seu primum... Mr. Hudson then adds, as a synonym, Gramen typhinum medium s. vulgatissimum. 1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. Pref. p. xvi We cannot have too complete a catalogue of all the species..together with their synonyms. 1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. §184 We find a distinct generic name given as a synonym. d. The equivalent of a word in another language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > equivalent of a word in another language synonym1594 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. E2^v Bidding a man boniure in germane sunonimas. 1804 A. Seward Mem. Dr. Darwin 202 Had life been used instead of its Latin synonym [printed synonism] ens. 2. By extension: A name or expression which involves or implies a meaning properly or literally expressed by some other; ‘another name for’. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > another name for synonym1632 the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > synonymy > [noun] > synonym > implying meaning literally expressed by other synonym1632 1632 P. Massinger Emperour of East i. ii. sig. B3^v Informer... As I am the State scout, you may think me an informer. Master of the habit. They are Synonima. 1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 129 Abrahams bosom is made the synonymon (of the same import) with heaven. 1784 R. Bage Barham Downs I. 329 Nor of dishonour neither, which I suppose is the modern synonime with marriage. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 507 His [sc. William Penn's] name has..become..a synonyme for probity and philanthropy. 1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 229 This region [sc. Peru], whose name was so long a synonym for wealth and magnificence. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ix. §1. 602 ‘Hobbism’ became, ere he died, the popular synonym for irreligion and immorality. 1879 J. Lubbock Sci. Lect. v. 161 The word ferrum was employed in Latin as a synonym for a sword. 3. transferred. Either of two or more things of like or identical nature but called by different names, e.g. corresponding geological formations in different regions. (Cf. synonymity n. b.) ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > [noun] > formation > identity of formations having different names > formation identical but with a different name synonym1839 1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. iv. 66 The formation differs essentially both from its type in the North of England, and from its foreign Synonyms. 4. loosely. A person of the same name as another; a ‘namesake’: = homonym n. 2.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > [noun] > namesake one with same name synonymy1612 namesakea1635 cognominal1646 name-daughter1712 name-son1712 name-child1789 synonym1837 homonym1851 1837 S. Smith Sir J. Mackintosh in Wks. (1850) 650/1 A Scotch cousin, who had mistaken me for my gallant synonym, the hero of Acre. Compounds C1. (in sense 1) synonym-pair. ΚΠ 1980 Logophile 4 i. 28 I have been working for some time on an article about the curious existence in English and French of synonym-pairs. C2. synonym-compound n. (see quot. 1923). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [noun] > compounding > a compound > specific augmentative1616 repetitive1810 bahuvrihi1846 dvandva compound1846 karmadharaya1846 tatpurusha1846 copulative compound1888 symphrase1893 synonym-compound1923 1923 B. Karlgren Sound & Symbol in Chinese iii. 32 The additions were of various kinds, the commonest and by far the most important of which was the formation of what may be called synonym-compounds. This consists in coupling together two simple words with the same or at least analogous meanings, words that formerly had been used alone. 1964 Language 40 104 The Chinese..invented tones to keep the monosyllables apart, and then synonym-compounds, further to clear up the difficulties they were now experiencing with their own language. Derivatives † ˈsynonym v. Obsolete rare (transitive) to designate by a synonym. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > synonymy > be synonymous with [verb (transitive)] > designate by a synonym synonym1763 1763 E. M. da Costa in Philos. Trans. 1762 (Royal Soc.) 52 446 It is truly a kind of crystal, and might with propriety be synonymed Crystallus viridis columnaris lateribus inordinatis. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1475
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