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Byword

Byword Meaning & Definition
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

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