noun🔗Share(strictly) A word whose meaning is the same as that of another word.""Happy" and "joyful" are synonyms. "languagewordlinguisticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA word or phrase with a meaning that is the same as, or very similar to, another word or phrase."“Happy” is a synonym of “glad”."languagelinguisticswordChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAny of the formal names for a taxon, including the valid name (i.e. the senior synonym)."In botany, Aster novi-belgii and Symphyotrichum novi-belgii are considered a synonym, as they both refer to the same New York aster plant. "biologyscienceorganismwordtechnicalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAny name for a taxon, usually a validly published, formally accepted one, but often also an unpublished name.""Dinosaur" is a synonym for "Dinosauria," the scientific name for the group of reptiles. "biologyscienceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareAn alternative (often shorter) name defined for an object in a database."In our company's database, "customer_name" is the synonym for the longer, more complicated field name, "client_company_legal_entity". "computingtechnicalsystemwordlanguageinfoChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
