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    synonym
    [ noun ]
    two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context
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    Synonym \Syn"o*nym\ (s[i^]n"[-o]*n[i^]m), n.; pl. {Synonyms}
    (s[i^]n"[-o]*n[i^]mz). [F. synonyme, L. synonyma, pl. of
    synonymum, Gr. synw`nymon. See {Synonymous}.]
    1. One of two or more words (commonly words of the same
    language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two
    or more words which have very nearly the same
    signification, and therefore may often be used
    interchangeably. See under {Synonymous}. [Written also
    {synonyme}.]

    All languages tend to clear themselves of synonyms
    as intellectual culture advances, the superfluous
    words being taken up and appropriated by new shades
    and combinations of thought evolved in the progress
    of society. --De Quincey.

    His name has thus become, throughout all civilized
    countries, a synonym for probity and philanthropy.
    --Macaulay.

    In popular literary acceptation, and as employed in
    special dictionaries of such words, synonyms are
    words sufficiently alike in general signification to
    be liable to be confounded, but yet so different in
    special definition as to require to be
    distinguished. --G. P. Marsh.

    2. An incorrect or incorrectly applied scientific name, as a
    new name applied to a species or genus already properly
    named, or a specific name preoccupied by that of another
    species of the same genus; -- so used in the system of
    nomenclature (which see) in which the correct scientific
    names of certain natural groups (usually genera, species,
    and subspecies) are regarded as determined by priority.
    [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

    3. One of two or more words corresponding in meaning but of
    different languages; a heteronym. [Rare]
    [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

    1. The winning synonym for Sacramento's 26,379 circular lids is expected to be announced Wednesday night at a council meeting.
    2. However, he acknowledged, "The word Edsel has become a synonym for loser.
    3. A good place to start would be to repeal the bill's provision for "employer sanctions," which is, we are now learning, a synonym for harassment.
    4. The company's chairman and chief executive officer, Morton E. David, stresses that the Franklin data bases work through phonetics so that users don't have to know how to spell the word properly to get a definition or synonym.
    5. Employees use the term "Penske time" as a synonym for speed.
    6. "It's difficult coming up with a one-syllable synonym for 'daughters,'" he says.
    7. "What is a good synonym for that?
    8. Their post-war caution toward the Soviets gave rise to the term "Finlandization" as a synonym for obsequiousness in a country's foreign policy.
    9. To most business people, the word 'transformation' is a synonym for 'change'.
    10. YUPPIE, THE 1980'S ACRONYM for "young urban professional," became a synonym for greedy strivers.
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