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While toilet and lavatory have discarded their original meanings, terms such as bog retained their original meanings (` a marshy place ') as well as being understood in Britain as a slang synonym for a toilet it achieved an entry in Hotten's dictionary as early as 1864 as "a privy as distinguished from a water-closet." While the zoot suit eventually attained widespread popularity in the mainstream, it also became a pejorative synonym for "Mexican" on the West Coast as some Americans took umbrage at so many able-bodied young men who were not "helping to win the war." Maybe we could mix it up with your tag synonym service too? Oil spill: Even worse worst-case scenarios! Īround 1960, it became a slang synonym for any kind of failure, "we cratered." In a previous column, cleared by copy editors and other arbiters of editorial taste after great hair-tearing and teeth-gnashing, we explored the penile and ornamental origins of the German-Yiddish schmuck, which has lost its taboo and is now a slang synonym for jerk, nerd, dork and creep.Īnother synonym is "maison de tolérance" (house of tolerance) and the humor is not lost on me as I go about putting together this unexpected edition. noun two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context.noun databases An alternative (often shorter) name defined for an object in a database.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.noun 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a name for a given taxon Any name for the taxon, usually a validly published, formally accepted one, but often also an unpublished name.noun zoology, with respect to a name for a given taxon Any of the formal names for the taxon, including the valid name (i.e.noun semantics, with respect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.

noun Rare One of two or more words corresponding in meaning but of different languages a heteronym.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

noun 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.

noun 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.

noun In natural history, a systematic name having the same, or approximately the same, meaning or application as another which has superseded it a technical name which, by the rules of nomenclature, is not tenable.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

See heteronym, 2, paronym, 2, and the quotation from Camden under synonymize.

noun A word of one language which corresponds in meaning with a word in another language.

noun A word having the same signification as another one of two or more words which have the same meaning by extension, a word having nearly the same meaning as another one of two or more words which in use cover to a considerable extent the same ground: the opposite of antonym.

noun Biology One of two or more scientific names that have been applied to the same species or other taxonomic group.

noun A word or expression that serves as a figurative or symbolic substitute for another.noun A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or other words in a language.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.