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Byword

Byword Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Byword? [n] a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people Synonyms \| Synonyms for Byword: adage \| proverb \| saw Related Terms \| Find terms related to Byword: adage \| ana \| analects \| aphorism \| apophthegm \| apothegm \| appellation \| appellative \| axiom \| binomen \| binomial name \| burning shame \| butt \| byname \| byword of reproach \| catch phrase \| catchword \| cliche \| cognomen \| collected sayings \| cry \| cryptonym \| current saying \| denomination \| derision \| designation \| dictate \| dictum \| dirty shame \| disgrace \| distich \| dupe \| empty title \| epigram \| epithet \| eponym \| euonym \| expression \| fad word \| fair game \| figure of fun \| fool \| game \| gazingstock \| gnome \| goat \| golden saying \| handle \| honorific \| humiliation \| hyponym \| jest \| jestingstock \| joke \| label \| laughingstock \| low-down dirty shame \| maxim \| mockery \| moniker \| monkey \| moral \| mot \| motto \| name \| namesake \| nomen \| nomen nudum \| oracle \| parable \| pet expression \| phrase \| pithy saying \| precept \| prescript \| proper name \| proper noun \| proverb \| proverbial saying \| proverbs \| reproach \| saw \| saying \| scandal \| scientific name \| secret name \| sentence \| sententious expression \| shame \| shibboleth \| slogan \| sloka \| sobriquet \| stock \| stock saying \| style \| sutra \| tag \| target \| tautonym \| teaching \| text \| title \| toy \| trinomen \| trinomial name \| verse \| victim \| vogue word \| watchword \| wisdom \| wisdom literature \| wise saying \| witticism \| word \| words of wisdom See Also \| expression \| locution \| saying Byword In Webster's Dictionary \By"word`\, n. [AS. b["i]word; b["i], E. by + word.] 1. A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency. I knew a wise man that had it for a byword. --Bacon. 2. The object of a contemptuous saying. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen. --Ps. xliv. 14

Byword Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Byword?

[n] a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

Synonyms | Synonyms for Byword: adage | proverb | saw

See Also | expression | locution | saying

Byword In Webster's Dictionary

\By"word`\, n. [AS. b["i]word; b["i], E. by + word.]
1. A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general
   currency.

         I knew a wise man that had it for a byword. --Bacon.

2. The object of a contemptuous saying.

         Thou makest us a byword among the heathen. --Ps.
                                               xliv. 14

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