synonym

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English sinonyme, from Latin synōnymum, from Ancient Greek συνώνυμον (sunōnumon), neuter singular form of συνώνυμος (sunōnumos, “synonymous”), from σύν (“with”) + ὄνομα (“name”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsɪnənɪm/

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Noun

synonym (plural synonyms)

1. (semantics, with respect to a given word or phrase) 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^[1]:

     The proportion of English words that have an exact synonym is small.

2. (zoology, with respect to a name for a given taxon) Any of the formal names for the taxon, including the valid name (i.e. the senior synonym).
3. (botany, with respect to a name for a given taxon) Any name for the taxon, usually a validly published, formally accepted one, but often also an unpublished name.

Synonyms

• (word or phrase with same meaning as another): equivalent, poecilonym

Antonyms

• (word or phrase with same meaning as another): antonym, opposite

Derived terms

• near-synonym

Related terms

• synonymic
• synonymist
• synonymous
• synonymy

Translations

word with same meaning as another

Armenian: հոմանիշ (homaniš) Bengali: প্রতিশব্দ (bn) Catalan: sinònim m. Chinese: Mandarin: 同義詞 (cmn), 同义词 (cmn) (tóngyìcí), 代名詞 (cmn), 代名词 (cmn) (dàimíngcí), (near-synonym) 近義詞 (cmn), 近义词 (cmn) (jìnyìcí) Czech: synonymum (cs) n., slovo souznačné (cs) n. Danish: synonym (da) n. Dutch: synoniem (nl) n. Esperanto: sinonimo (eo) Estonian: sünonüüm (et) Finnish: synonyymi (fi) French: synonyme (fr) m. Galician: sinónimo (gl) m. German: Synonym (de) n. Greek: συνώνυμο (el) n. (synónymo) Hindi: पर्याय (hi) (paryāy) m. Hungarian: szinonima (hu) Icelandic: samheiti (is) n.

Italian: sinonimo (it) m. Japanese: 同義語 (どうぎご, dōgi-go; same), 類義語 (るいぎご, ruigi-go; similar) Khmer: ន័យដូច (km) (ney dooch) Latvian: sinonīms (lv) m. Lithuanian: sinonìmas (lt) m. Malay: synonim (ms) Polish: synonim (pl) m. Romanian: sinonim (ro) n. Russian: синоним (ru) (sinónim) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: истозначница (sh) f., сино̀нӣм (sh) m. Roman: istòznačnica (sh) f., sinònīm (sh) m. Slovene: sopomenka (sl) f., sinonim (sl) m. Spanish: sinónimo (es) m. Swahili: kisawe (sw) Swedish: synonym (sv) c., liktyding (sv) c. Volapük: leigasinifavöd (vo) Welsh: cyfystyr (cy) m.

in zoological nomenclature

Czech: synonymum (cs) n. Dutch: synoniem (nl) n.

Finnish: synonyymi (fi) Swahili: sinonimu (sw)

in botanical nomenclature

Czech: synonymum (cs) n. Dutch: synoniem (nl) n.

Finnish: synonyymi (fi) Swahili: sinonimu (sw)

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Mandarin: 同義詞, 同义词 (tongyici) Indonesian: persamaan kata, sinonim Interlingua: synonymo Malayalam: പര്യായം (paryaayam) Portuguese: sinônimo (Brazil), sinónimo (Portugal) Swedish: synonym Turkish: eş anlamlı

See also

• homotypic
• heterotypic

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Danish

Adjective

synonym (neuter synonymt, definite and plural synonyme)

1. synonymous

Synonyms

• ensbetydende

Noun

synonym n. (singular definite synonymet, plural indefinite synonymer)

1. synonym

Inflection

    Inflection of synonym

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	synonym	synonymet	synonymer	synonymerne
genitive	synonyms	synonymets	synonymers	synonymernes

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German

Adjective

synonym (not comparable)

1. synonymous

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Norwegian

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Adjective

synonym (masculine synonym; feminine synonym; neuter synonymt; plural synonyme; comparative synonymere; superlative synonymest)

1. synonymous

Noun

synonym n. (definite singular synonymet; indefinite plural synonym/synonymer; definite plural synonyma/synonymene)

1. synonym