Word Finder - synonym

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(strictly) A word whose meaning is the same as that of another word.

synonyms

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A word or phrase with a meaning that is the same as, or very similar to, another word or phrase.

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“Happy” is a synonym of “glad”.

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• metonym

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Any of the formal names for a taxon, including the valid name (i.e. the senior synonym).

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Any name for a taxon, usually a validly published, formally accepted one, but often also an unpublished name.

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An alternative (often shorter) name defined for an object in a database.

Actually, only some foreign counts could be said to be equivalent to English earls; but "earl" is always translated by foreigners by words (comte, Graf) which in English are represented by "count," itself never used as the synonym of "earl."

The Parisians received the news of the event with joy, believing that freedom was now at last to be established on a firm basis by the man whose name was the synonym for victory in the field and disinterestedness in civil affairs.

In fact his name has become a synonym for the word liar.

The words might sound to Jewish ears merely as a synonym for " man."

It is also occasionally used as a synonym for "footman" or "lackey."

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Another synonym is "anchoret" or "anchorite."

From this point of view theism is a synonym for Natural Theology, or almost so.

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The term "leech," as an old English synonym for physician, is from.

The synonym "gray," given by Willughby and Ray, is doubtless derived from the general colour of the species, and has its analogue in the Icelandic Grdond, applied almost indifferently, or with some distinguishing epithet, to the female of any of the freshwater ducks, and especially to both sexes of the present, in which, as stated in the text, there is comparatively little conspicuous difference of plumage in drake and duck.

In Dr. Hynek 's words Instead of having UFO a synonym for crackpot and ridicule, let 's make it scientifically respectable.

Deep is a synonym used in Scripture for the sea.

The name is not therefore equally applicable to all psalms, and in the later Jewish ritual the synonym Hallel specially designates two series of psalms, cxiii.

On the defeat of Josiah at Megiddo his younger brother Jehoahaz (or Shallum) was chosen by the Judaeans, but the Egyptian conquerer Necho summoned him to his headquarters at Riblah (south of Hamath on the Orontes) and removed him to Egypt, appointing in his stead Eliakim, whose name ("El[God] raiseth up") was changed to its better-known synonym, Jehoiakim.

Since its foundation the society has done much to make English colonization a synonym for humane and generous treatment of savage races.

It is with these sacrifices that the name of "the Molech" is always connected; sometimes "the Baal" (lord) appears as a synonym.

We must not suppose that the word "prophet" had merely become more common in his time and supplanted an older synonym.

In Dr. Hynek's words " Instead of having UFO a synonym for crackpot and ridicule, let's make it scientifically respectable.

This package ends up with a public synonym with execute rights granted to the role PUBLIC.

Taken alone it is commonly a synonym of hawfinch, but a prefix is usually added to indicate the species, as pine-grosbeak, cardinal-grosbeak and the like.

Yunan is still a popular synonym for Oroum, a Greek, among the Arabs; in India Yavana was long the generic name for all foreigners from the north and west, a use dating probably from Alexander's day and the Graeco-Bactrian monarchs.

Since Plumulites appears to be a synonym of Turrilepas (not Turrilepis), the species Turrilepas wrightii (Woodward, 1865), from the Upper Silurian of Dudley, did not long enjoy an isolated eminence as the oldest known cirripede.

Despite what many of the Help files say, don't go overboard and think of every possible synonym.

It again is not exactly a synonym, though more nearly so than the last.

His name becomes little more than a synonym for the heavens in general and even his title as king or father of the gods has little of the personal element in it.

Thoughout, Ephraim played a distinctive and prominent part; it probably excelled Manasseh in numerical strength, and the name became a synonym for the northern kingdom of Israel.

Even in Protestant England, where purely secular training schools have reached their highest development, the generic title of Sister, alike prized by its holders and honoured by the public, remains the popular and professional synonym for head nurse, and perpetuates the old association.

Similarly, " the classics" is a synonym for the choicest products of the literature of ancient Greece and Rome.

Election, as a special form of selection, is naturally a loose term covering many subjects; but except in the theological sense (the doctrine of election), as employed by Calvin and others, for the choice by God of His " elect," the legal sense (see Election, in law, below), and occasionally as a synonym for personal choice (one's own " election "), it is confined to the selection by the preponderating vote of some properly constituted body of electors of one of two or more candidates, sometimes for admission only to some private social position (as in a club), but more particularly in connexion with public representative positions in political government.

Paddan has been connected phonetically with Patin, west of the Euphrates, and explained by others as a synonym for Harran.

Despite what many of the Help files say, do n't go overboard and think of every possible synonym.

Wordnet is a lexical database for English where the words are organized into synonym sets.

Other kinds mentioned in catalogues belong to Gilia, of which I pomopsis is really a synonym.

The word Vidure means "hardy wine" and is sometimes used as a synonym for Cabernet Sauvignon.

Sometimes used as a synonym for hypnotic.

The word is now generally a synonym for "monkey," but the common verb for both (as transferred figuratively to human beings) is "to ape," i.e.

It is possible that the Liber Pontificalis refers to the office under the Latin synonym, when it says of Pope Victor (186-197) that he made sequentes cleros, a term - sequens - which Pope Gaius (283-293) uses in the sense of acolyte.

By, some the term Polynesian has been treated as a synonym for Malayo-Polynesian, and has been made to include all the brown races of Malaysia, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.

They are accordingly often spoken of as the Calvinistic Churches, Protestant being sometimes used as a synonym for Lutheran.

What really sets this volume apart from other synonym dictionaries is the wealth of choices available for each word.

The American Library Association is a great place for us to kick off our list for the top books for teens, and if you think library is a quaint synonym for boring, you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Naming a console after a word that is often a synonym for bathroom behavior (in English) is about as bold as you can get.

They were also ridiculed in witty verses by Moliere, Boileau and La Fontaine, and gradually the name Escobar came to be used in France as a synonym for a person who is adroit in making the rules of morality harmonize with his own interests.

It is in the pseudo-Platonic Epinomis that Aoyos appears as a synonym for vous.

By default, synonym replacement is done for all words.

Lastly the soul is pictured as being a man's breath (anima), and this again has come down to us in literature, evidenced by the fact that the word "breath" has become a synonym for life itself.

But Ortygia ("home of quails") applies still to Delos, and may well have been a synonym for that island.

Hence, in the later classical Sanskrit literature, the term dvija, or twice-born, is used simply as a synonym for a Brahman.

When the word biretum first appears in the 13th century, it practically means no more than "cap," and is used as a synonym of pileus.