What is another word for "byword"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "byword": abuse, accent, adage, admitted, agnomen, all, ambiguity, anagram, and, antiphrasis, antonomasia, antonym, aphorism, aphoristic, apophthegm, apothegm, archaic, archaism, argot, assumption, axiom, axiomatic, babu, baptism, baptize, barbarism, bean, belief, black, brogue, broken, by-name, call, cant, caption, characterize, christen, clepe, clinch, cognomen.

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