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Etymologies
- Middle English sinonyme, from Old French synonyme, from Latin synōnymum, from Greek sunōnumon, from neuter of sunōnumos, synonymous; see synonymous.
Examples
“Of the four activities one is a game called Synonym Toast.”
“Shane Sparks, the Dance Synonym, is taking Hollywood by storm, significantly through his vital role in Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance contest.”
“LR: Well, I have a great thesaurus that’s organized dictionary-style, called The Synonym Finder, by J.I. Rodale.”
“Time for Mr. Page to get Google's geeks working on a Google Synonym service?”
“(I'm giving my great-niece a haiku with a copy of The Synonym Finder as a high school graduation gift -- appropriate for a family of wordsmiths and an incoming university freshman.) 5.”
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“Results 1. to injure or destroy unexpectedly and treacherously 2. to murder a usually prominent person by sudden or secret attack often for political reasons– Synonym — seekill”
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“New Google Feature: Synonym Search - Microdoc News ran ~ through several tests and advises that one use it sparingly.”
“Synonym Operatorat Waxy.org gives several examples of words with synonyms.”
“In Oracle I got the scaffold to work by creating a Synonym for the table with the expected plural form of table name. jimbox on”
“Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Homonym, Acronym, Synonym....”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘Synonym’.
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Word Words
This used to be my nym list, but there are so many words about words, I think it's time to expand and open.
acronym, antonym, aptronym, autoantonym, autonym, bacronym, capitonym, contranym, contronym, eponym, exonym, heteronym and 120 more...
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Language
word, sentence, novel, book, novella, vignette, memoir, anthology, paragraph, stanza, poem, haiku and 123 more...
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Word Words
Words that describe other words
adverb, verb, noun, adjective, pronoun, Synonym, antonym, phrase, dictionary, grammar, word, passage and 19 more...
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Wordie Paradox
random, add, mentions, widget_options, test, recent, ¨, biff!, ΒΑ�?Α�?Α, Synonym, cloud, %c3%a5 and 25 more...
bilby A curio if ever there was. Jul 27, 2008
sonofgroucho "A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of." Burt Bacharach
Dec 12, 2007
envelopingshadow Cool... I thought it was capitalized because I had entered it with a capital "S". I deleted and re-typed it before I clicked the word and found out what happened. :P Feb 2, 2007
ok_girl I was wondering that myself! Jan 2, 2007
uselessness Wordie's first easter egg? Score! Dec 15, 2006
john It's capitalized because this word entered the system before I'd even launched the site, when I was setting up the profile page, with the "you are a..." and "seeking a..." options. I hadn't yet decided to lowercase everything. I think I'll leave it as-is, as a sort of historical artifact :-) Dec 15, 2006
john excellent question, checking right now... Dec 15, 2006
uselessness Why exactly is this capitalized? Dec 15, 2006