synonym

See also: Synonym and Wiktionary:Semantic_relations#Synonymy

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 (sun, “with”) + ὄνομα (onoma, “name”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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a name for a given taxon) Any name for the taxon, usually a validly published, formally accepted one, but often also an unpublished name.
4. (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

• (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)
• Asturian: sinónimu (ast) m
• Bengali: প্রতিশব্দ
• Catalan: sinònim (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 同義詞, 同义词 (zh) (tóngyìcí), 代名詞 (zh), 代名词 (zh) (dàimíngcí), (near-synonym) 近義詞 (zh), 近义词 (jìnyìcí)

• 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
• German: Synonym (de) n
• Greek: συνώνυμο (el) n (synónymo)
• Hindi: पर्याय m (paryāy), पर्यायवाची, समानार्थी शब्द
• Hungarian: szinonima (hu)
• Icelandic: samheiti (is) n
• Italian: sinonimo (it) m
• Japanese: 同義語 (ja) (どうぎご, dōgi-go; same), 類義語 (ja) (るいぎご, ruigi-go; similar)

• Khmer: ន័យដូច (ney dooch)
• Latvian: sinonīms (lv) m
• Lithuanian: sinonìmas m
• Malay: synonim, kata seerti, sinonim, muradif
• Maori: kupu taurite
• Persian: هم‌معنی (ham-ma'ni), مترادف (fa) (motarâdef)
• Polish: synonim (pl) m
• Portuguese: sinónimo (pt) (Portugal), sinônimo (pt) (Brazil)
• Romanian: sinonim (ro) n
• Russian: синоним (ru) m (sinónim)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: истозначница f, сино̀нӣм m

  Roman: istòznačnica f, sinònīm m

• Slovene: sopomenka (sl) f, sinonim (sl) m
• Spanish: sinónimo (es) m
• Swahili: kisawe (sw)
• Swedish: synonym (sv) c, liktyding c
• Volapük: leigasinifavöd
• Welsh: cyfystyr (cy) m

in zoological nomenclature

• Czech: synonymum (cs) n
• Dutch: synoniem (nl) n
• Finnish: synonyymi (fi)

• Portuguese: sinónimo (pt) (Portugal), sinônimo (pt) (Brazil)
• Swahili: sinonimu (sw)
• Swedish: synonym (sv) c, vetenskaplig synonym c, namnsynonym c

in botanical nomenclature

• Czech: synonymum (cs) n
• Dutch: synoniem (nl) n
• Finnish: synonyymi (fi)

• Portuguese: sinónimo (pt) (Portugal), sinônimo (pt) (Brazil)
• Swahili: sinonimu (sw)
• Swedish: synonym (sv) c, vetenskaplig synonym c, namnsynonym c

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• Mandarin: 同義詞, 同义词 (zh) (tongyici)
• Indonesian: persamaan kata , sinonim (id)
• Interlingua: synonymo
• Malayalam: പര്യായം (ml) (paryaayam)
• Swedish: synonym (sv)
• Turkish: eş anlamlı (tr)

See also

An Euler diagram showing the relationship between these -nyms.

Different Meanings

Nym	Sound	Spelling	Category
homonym	same	same
heteronym	different	same	(cat)
homograph	not specified	same
homophone	same	different	(cat)
heterophone	different	different
synonym	different	different

• 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	synonym	synonymet	synonymer	synonymerne
genitive	synonyms	synonymets	synonymers	synonymernes

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German

Adjective

synonym (not comparable)

1. synonymous

Declension

Declension of synonym

gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		er ist synonym	sie ist synonym	es ist synonym	sie sind synonym
strong declension (without article)	nominative	synonymer	synonyme	synonymes	synonyme
	genitive	synonymen	synonymer	synonymen	synonymer
	dative	synonymem	synonymer	synonymem	synonymen
	accusative	synonymen	synonyme	synonymes	synonyme
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der synonyme	die synonyme	das synonyme	die synonymen
	genitive	des synonymen	der synonymen	des synonymen	der synonymen
	dative	dem synonymen	der synonymen	dem synonymen	den synonymen
	accusative	den synonymen	die synonyme	das synonyme	die synonymen
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein synonymer	eine synonyme	ein synonymes	(keine) synonymen
	genitive	eines synonymen	einer synonymen	eines synonymen	(keiner) synonymen
	dative	einem synonymen	einer synonymen	einem synonymen	(keinen) synonymen
	accusative	einen synonymen	eine synonyme	ein synonymes	(keine) synonymen

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

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Adjective

synonym (masculine synonym; feminine synonym; neuter synonymt; plural synonyme;comparative mer synonym; superlative mest synonym)

1. synonymous

Noun

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

1. synonym

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

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

1. synonymous

Noun

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

1. synonym