synonym

To make synonymous.

Noun

  1. A term (word or phrase) which is synonymous with others.
    • Near-synonyms: near-synonym, parasynonym, plesionym
    • “Happy” is a synonym of “glad”.
    • The proportion of English words that have an exact synonym is small. - 1991, William T. Parry, Edward A. Hacker, Aristotelian Logic:

    Synonyms: poecilonym near-synonym parasynonym plesionym

    Antonyms: antonym opposite

    Hypernyms: term

  2. Any of the various names that could in theory be used for a taxon in accordance with the relevant rules.

    1. (taxonomy, informal) The subset of those names other than the one to be used according to the rules.

    2. (taxonomy, by extension) Any name that has been applied to a taxon other than the one to be used, including those not allowed by the rules such as misspellings or nomina nuda.

  3. An alternative (often shorter) name defined for an object in a database.
    • Synonyms are part of the SQL standard and are used frequently by Oracle DBAs. Note that Oracle includes both private and public synonyms. - 2011, Paul Nielsen, Uttam Parui, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Bible:

Origin

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.

Forms

synonyms synonime synonyme

Synonyms

synonymum

Hyponyms

paranym

Related

coordinate term cohyponym comeronym hypernym hyperonym hyponym metonym synechdoche antiphrasis homotypic heterotypic Wiktionary:Semantic relations identical same homophone & homograph homophone different homophone & heterograph alternative spelling homonym heterophone & heterograph heteronym heterophone & homograph alternative pronunciation

Derived

desynonymization geosynonym heterotypic synonym homotypic synonym junior synonym near-synonym nomenclatural synonym objective synonym parasynonym quasi-synonym slangonym subjective synonym synanagram synonymal synonymic synonymical synonymification synonymise synonymist synonymity synonymize synonymless synonymomania synonymous

Verb

  1. To make synonymous.
    • The fair fame of this good Knight has suffered greatly from the levity of his critics, and still more from the chattering of nugators, blatterones, sermocinators, and other superficial dignitaries; insomuch that his...
    • […] if that properly belongs to the Saltatorii section, which Fabricius seems to believe by his synonyming it with his C. Viminalis […] - 1852, John Freeman, Life of the Rev. W. Kirby, page 267:

Forms

synonyms synonyming synonymed synonime synonyme