byword
byword is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The object of a contemptuous saying. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen. Ps. xliv. 14
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- 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
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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