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English
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
Noun
synonym (plural synonyms )
( 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
( 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.
( 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
( taxonomy , botany ) Any name for a taxon, usually a validly published, formally accepted one, but often also an unpublished name.
( 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
word with same meaning as another
Albanian: sinonim (sq)
Arabic: مُرَادِف (ar) m ( murādif )
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܢܦܝܩ ܫܡܐ
Armenian: հոմանիշ (hy) ( homaniš )
Asturian: sinónimu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: sinonim
Belarusian: сіно́нім (be) m ( sinónim )
Bengali: প্রতিশব্দ (bn) ( protiśobdo )
Bulgarian: синони́м (bg) m ( sinoním )
Burmese: ပရိယာယ် (my) ( pa.ri.yay )
Catalan: sinònim (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 同義詞 / 同义词 (zh) ( tóngyìcí ) , 代名詞 / 代名词 (zh) ( dàimíngcí ) , 近義詞 / 近义词 (zh) ( jìnyìcí ) ( near-synonym ) , 相似詞 / 相似词 ( xiāngsìcí )
Czech: synonymum (cs) n , slovo souznačné (cs) n
Danish: synonym (da) n
Dutch: synoniem (nl) n , evenwoord n
Esperanto: sinonimo
Estonian: sünonüüm
Finnish: synonyymi (fi)
French: synonyme (fr) m
Galician: sinónimo (gl) m
Georgian: სინონიმი (ka) ( sinonimi )
German: Synonym (de) n , Synonymum n , Gleichwort n , bedeutungsgleiches Wort n
Greek: συνώνυμο (el) n ( synónymo )
Ancient: συνώνυμον n ( sunṓnumon )
Hebrew: מילה נרדפת \ מִלָּה נִרְדֶּפֶת (he) f ( milá nirdéfet )
Hindi: पर्याय (hi) m ( paryāy ) , पर्यायवाची ( paryāyvācī ) , समानार्थी शब्द ( samānārthī śabd )
Hungarian: szinonima (hu) , rokon értelmű szó
Icelandic: samheiti (is) n
Ido: sinonimo (io)
Indonesian: sinonim (id) , kata padanan
Irish: comhchiallach m
Italian: sinonimo (it) m
Japanese: 同義語 (ja) ( どうぎご, dōgigo ) ( same ) , 類義語 (ja) ( るいぎご, ruigigo ) ( similar )
Kazakh: синоним ( sinonim )
Khmer: ន័យដូច (km) ( nɨy douc ) , វេវចនៈ (km) ( veevĕəʼcaʼnaʼ )
Korean: 같은말 ( gateunmal ) same (oral) , 비슷한말 (ko) ( biseuthanmal ) similar (oral) , 동의어(同義語) (ko) ( dong'uieo ) same (written) , 유의어(類義語) (ko) ( yuuieo ) similar (written)
Lao: ໄວພົດ ( wai phot )
Latin: synōnymum (la) n
Latvian: sinonīms (lv) m
Lithuanian: sinonìmas (lt) m
Macedonian: синони́м m ( sinoním )
Malay: kata seerti (ms) , sinonim (ms) , muradif
Malayalam: പര്യായം (ml) ( paryāyaṁ )
Maori: kupu taurite
Marathi: समानार्थी शब्द m ( samānārthī śabda )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: synonym (no) n , liketyding m
Nynorsk: synonym (nn) n , liketyding (nn) f
Persian: هممعنی ( ham-ma'ni ) , مترادف (fa) ( motarâdef )
Polish: synonim (pl) m inan , bliskoznacznik m
Portuguese: sinónimo (pt) ( Portugal ) , sinônimo (pt) ( Brazil )
Romanian: sinonim (ro) n
Russian: сино́ним (ru) m ( sinónim )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: истозначница f , сино̀нӣм m
Roman: istòznačnica (sh) f , sinònīm (sh) m
Sicilian: sinònimu (scn) m
Slovak: synonymum (sk) n
Slovene: sopomenka (sl) f , sinonim (sl) m
Spanish: sinónimo (es) m
Swahili: kisawe (sw) , sinonimu (sw)
Swedish: synonym (sv) c , liktyding c
Tagalog: singkahulugan , kasing-kahulugan
Telugu: ప్రతిపదము (te) ( pratipadamu )
Thai: ไวพจน์ (th) ( wai-pót ) , คำพ้องความ (th) ( kam-pɔ́ɔng-kwaam )
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: sinonim (tr) , anlamdaş (tr) , müteradif (tr)
Ukrainian: сино́нім (uk) m ( synónim )
Uyghur: مەنىداش سۆز ( menidash söz )
Vietnamese: từ đồng nghĩa (vi)
Volapük: leigasinifavöd
Walloon: sinonime (wa) m , Piron-parey m
Welsh: cyfystyr (cy) m , gair cyfystyr m
in zoological nomenclature
in botanical nomenclature
Translations to be checked
See also
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
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 )
synonym
Declension
Further reading
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
synonym (strong nominative masculine singular synonymer , not comparable )
synonymous
Synonym: ( rarer ) synonymisch
Declension
Positive forms of synonym (uncomparable )
Further reading
“synonym ” in Duden online
“synonym ” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Ancient Greek συνώνυμον ( sunṓnumon ) , and συνώνυμος ( sunṓnumos , “ synonymous ” ) .
Pronunciation
Adjective
synonym (neuter singular synonymt , definite singular and plural synonyme )
synonymous
Synonyms
Noun
synonym n (definite singular synonymet , indefinite plural synonym or synonymer , definite plural synonyma or synonymene )
synonym
Synonyms
Derived terms
See also
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
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 )
synonymous
Synonyms
Noun
synonym n (definite singular synonymet , indefinite plural synonym , definite plural synonyma )
synonym
Synonyms
Derived terms
See also
References
Swedish
Adjective
synonym
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
synonym
Declension
Further reading