synonym

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English sinonyme, from Latin synōnymum, from Ancient Greek συνώνυμον (sunṓnumon), neuter singular form of συνώνυμος (sunṓnumos, synonymous), from σύν (sún, with) + ὄνομα (ónoma, name). By surface analysis, syn- +‎ -onym.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: sĭn'ənĭm, IPA(key): /ˈsɪn.əˌnɪm/
    • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪm

Noun

synonym (plural synonyms)

  1. (semantics, strictly) A word or term whose meaning is the same as that of another.
    Synonyms: poecilonym (rare), alias
    Antonyms: antonym, opposite
    Hypernyms: equivalent; word; term
    Coordinate terms: coordinate term, cohyponym; comeronym; hypernym, hyperonym; hyponym; near-synonym, parasynonym, plesionym; metonym, synechdoche; antiphrasis
  2. (semantics, loosely) A word or phrase with a meaning that is the same as, or very similar to, another word or phrase.
    “Happy” is a synonym of “glad”.
    • 1991, William T. Parry, Edward A. Hacker, Aristotelian Logic:
      The proportion of English words that have an exact synonym is small.
  3. (zoology) Any of the formal names for a taxon, including the valid name (i.e. the senior synonym).
    Synonym: poecilonym
    Hyponyms: senior synonym, junior synonym
  4. (taxonomy, botany) Any name for a taxon, usually a validly published, formally accepted one, but often also an unpublished name.
  5. (databases) An alternative (often shorter) name defined for an object in a database.
    • 2011, Paul Nielsen, Uttam Parui, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Bible:
      Synonyms are part of the SQL standard and are used frequently by Oracle DBAs. Note that Oracle includes both private and public synonyms.

Synonyms

  • (all senses): synonymum (non-native speakers' English)

Derived terms

Translations

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Euler diagram of choice semantic relations.
Nyms (with category if any)
Noun (cat) Sound Spelling Meaning phone/graph
identical same same same homophone & homograph
homophone (cat) same different different homophone & heterograph
alternative spelling same different same homophone & heterograph
homonym same same different homophone & homograph
synonym different different same heterophone & heterograph
heteronym (cat) different same different heterophone & homograph
alternative pronunciation different same same heterophone & homograph
distinct different different different heterophone & heterograph

Danish

Adjective

synonym

  1. synonymous

Inflection

Inflection of synonym
positive comparative superlative
indefinite common singular synonym 2
indefinite neuter singular synonymt 2
plural synonyme 2
definite attributive1 synonyme

1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Synonyms

Noun

synonym n (singular definite synonymet, plural indefinite synonymer)

  1. synonym

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German

Pronunciation

Adjective

synonym (strong nominative masculine singular synonymer, not comparable)

  1. synonymous
    Synonym: (rarer) synonymisch

Declension

Further reading

  • synonym” in Duden online
  • synonym” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Norwegian Bokmål

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Wikipedia no

Etymology

From Ancient Greek συνώνυμον (sunṓnumon), and συνώνυμος (sunṓnumos, synonymous).

Pronunciation

Adjective

synonym (neuter singular synonymt, definite singular and plural synonyme)

  1. synonymous

Synonyms

Noun

synonym n (definite singular synonymet, indefinite plural synonym or synonymer, definite plural synonyma or synonymene)

  1. synonym

Synonyms

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

From Ancient Greek συνώνυμον (sunṓnumon), and συνώνυμος (sunṓnumos, synonymous).

Adjective

synonym (neuter synonymt, definite singular and plural synonyme, comparative synonymare, indefinite superlative synonymast, definite superlative synonymaste)

  1. synonymous

Synonyms

Noun

synonym n (definite singular synonymet, indefinite plural synonym, definite plural synonyma)

  1. synonym

Synonyms

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Swedish

Adjective

synonym

  1. synonymous
    Synonym: liktydig

Declension

Inflection of synonym
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular synonym
neuter singular synonymt
plural synonyma
masculine plural2 synonyma
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3
all synonyma

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Noun

synonym

  1. synonym

Declension

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