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A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
The word poecilonym is a rare synonym of the word synonym. It is not entered in most major dictionaries and is a curiosity or piece of trivia for being an autological word because of its meta quality as a synonym of synonym. Antonyms are words with opposite or nearly opposite meanings. For example: hot ↔ cold, large ↔ small, thick ↔ thin ...
Words are just symbols, the meanings of which are constantly subject to change. It is the concept behind the symbols which have the ability to be synonymous. So the most precise definition of "synonym" is, IMO: "a word with at least one meaning the same or very similar to at least one meaning of a different word."
An adage expresses a well-known and simple truth in a few words. [8] (Similar to aphorism and proverb.) adjective Any word or phrase which modifies a noun or pronoun, grammatically added to describe, identify, or quantify the related noun or pronoun. [9] [10] adverb A descriptive word used to modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
The meanings of these words do not always correspond to Germanic cognates, and occasionally the specific meaning in the list is unique to English. Those Germanic words listed below with a Frankish source mostly came into English through Anglo-Norman, and so despite ultimately deriving from Proto-Germanic, came to English through a Romance ...
He ends this entry with a list of several common synonyms and their not-quite-identical meanings, including "state is to express in detail or to recite. It is well to discriminate among these shades of meaning or, failing that, to stick to say." WhatamIdoing 05:43, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
The site cross-references the contents of dictionaries such as The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the Collins English Dictionary; encyclopedias such as the Columbia Encyclopedia, the Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, the Hutchinson Encyclopedia (subscription), and Wikipedia; book publishers such as McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin, HarperCollins, as well as the Acronym Finder ...
Small talk varies country to country and people to people. Southern Europeans, for example, are said to be very good at using lots of words to convey very little information. [15] Also, small talk rules and topics can differ widely between cultures. Weather is a common topic in regions where the climate has great variation and can be unpredictable.