synonym
n. countablen. a word that has the same or a very similar meaning as another word. You use them to avoid repeating the same word too many times.
n. a word or phrase that carries the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the same language. Often used to provide lexical variety or to match a specific register.
'Happy' is a synonym for 'glad'.
The writer used a thesaurus to find a synonym for 'beautiful' to make the description more interesting.
While 'start' and 'commence' are often treated as synonyms, the latter carries a formal weight that makes it unsuitable for casual conversation.
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.
Commonly takes the preposition 'for' or 'of' when linking two words.
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