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A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase.

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A characteristic word or expression; a word or phrase associated with a person or group.

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Someone or something that stands as an example (i.e. metonymically) for something else, by having some of that something's characteristic traits.

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An object of notoriety or contempt, scorn or derision.

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A nickname or epithet.

Examples of byword in a Sentence

Unfortunately, however, the confusion engendered by a defective organization has long been a byword among the people; there is no printed catalogue, quantities of books are buried in packingcases and unavailable, the collection of foreign books is very poor, hardly any new works being purchased, and the building itself is quite inadequate and far from safe; but the site of a new one has now been purchased and the plans are agreed upon, so that eventually the whole collection will be transferred to more suitable quarters.

His wife, Faustina, has almost become a byword for her lack of womanly virtue; but she seems to have kept her hold on his affections to the last.

The name became a byword for something cobbled together, botched together, tied together with string.

Gleneagles is a byword for unashamed luxury, unrivaled golf and leisure facilities and legendary hospitality.

Moreover, he irritated public opinion by raising to senatorial rank the director-general of the Banca Romana, Signor Tanlongo, whose irregular practices had become a byword.

As a temporal ruler John was devoid of the vigour and firmness of his father, and his union of the papal office - which through his scandalous private life he made a byword of reproach - with his civil dignities proved a source of weakness rather than of strength.

True, by the time of its collapse 15 years ago the Soviet Union was a byword for ecological devastation.

To do things "railroad fashion" is now the byword; and it is worth the while to be warned so often and so sincerely by any power to get off its track.

Croesus, a king so rich that he remains a byword for wealth to this day, is overthrown by Cyrus four years later.

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