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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

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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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