synonym

/sin-uh-nim/US // ˈsɪn ə nɪm //UK // (ˈsɪnənɪm) //

同义词,近义词,同义字,异名

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as happy, joyful, elated. A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms, such as Thesaurus.com, is called a thesaurus.
- : a word or expression accepted as another name for something, as Arcadia for pastoral simplicity or Wall Street for U.S. financial markets; metonym.
- : Biology. one of two or more scientific names applied to a single taxon.

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I think that the word “country” is a synonym for so many other words.
As a synonym for “nonsense,” bunk proved to be just the sort of satisfying, blunt word users crave.
Most importantly, foreign policy should not be reduced to a synonym for military action and covert operations.
Less canonically, “natural marriage” is also at times used as a rough synonym for “common-law marriage.”
It's a telling tic that we often use "urban" as a synonym for "black."
My students seem to really want to use “however” as a conjunction—more or less a synonym for “but.”
A synonym given for submissive is “compliant,” and among those given for submit is “yield” and “defer.”
One of the most beautiful symbols of the Catacombs is the dove, the perpetual synonym of peace.
It came to mean an entertainment of music and dancing, and was used as a synonym for masquerades.
Another synonym of tonos which becomes very common in the later writers on music is the word tropos.
Change the structure of the sentence, substitute one synonym for another, and the whole effect is destroyed.
The profits were beyond all reason, and the word publican became a for sinner.

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as happy, joyful, elated. A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms, such as Thesaurus.com, is called a thesaurus.
- : a word or expression accepted as another name for something, as Arcadia for pastoral simplicity or Wall Street for U.S. financial markets; metonym.
- : Biology. one of two or more scientific names applied to a single taxon.

Examples

I think that the word “country” is a synonym for so many other words.

As a synonym for “nonsense,” bunk proved to be just the sort of satisfying, blunt word users crave.

Most importantly, foreign policy should not be reduced to a synonym for military action and covert operations.

Less canonically, “natural marriage” is also at times used as a rough synonym for “common-law marriage.”

It's a telling tic that we often use "urban" as a synonym for "black."

My students seem to really want to use “however” as a conjunction—more or less a synonym for “but.”

A synonym given for submissive is “compliant,” and among those given for submit is “yield” and “defer.”

One of the most beautiful symbols of the Catacombs is the dove, the perpetual synonym of peace.

It came to mean an entertainment of music and dancing, and was used as a synonym for masquerades.

Another synonym of tonos which becomes very common in the later writers on music is the word tropos.

Change the structure of the sentence, substitute one synonym for another, and the whole effect is destroyed.

The profits were beyond all reason, and the word publican became a for sinner.