n. [ F. allonyme, fr. Gr. &unr_; other + &unr_; name. ] 1. The name of another person assumed by the author of a work. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A work published under the name of some one other than the author. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Published under the name of some one other than the author. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. anonyme. See Anonymous. ] 1. One who is anonymous; also sometimes used for “pseudonym.” [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A notion which has no name, or which can not be expressed by a single English word. [ R. ] J. R. Seeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being anonymous; anonymousness; also, that which anonymous. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He rigorously insisted upon the rights of anonymity. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; without name; 'an priv. + &unr_;, Eol. for &unr_; name. See Name. ] Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an anonymous manner; without a name. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being anonymous. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a word used in substitution for another; &unr_; + &unr_;, &unr_;, a word. ] A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym. [ R. ] C. J. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family comprising the dragonets.
Syn. -- family Callionymidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; secret + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; name. ] A secret name; a name by which a person is known only to the initiated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of desynonymizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of synonymous character; to discriminate in use; -- applied to words which have been employed as synonyms. Coleridge. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. éponyme. See Eponymous. ] 1. The hypothetical individual who is assumed as the person from whom any race, city, etc., took its name; as, Hellen is an eponym of the Hellenes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A name, as of a people, country, and the like, derived from that of an individual. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Eponymous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tablets . . . which bear eponymic dates. I. Taylor (The Alphabet). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One from whom a race, tribe, city, or the like, took its name; an eponym. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'epi` upon, to + &unr_; for &unr_; name. ] Relating to an eponym; giving one's name to a tribe, people, country, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

What becomes . . . of the Herakleid genealogy of the Spartan kings, when it is admitted that eponymous persons are to be canceled as fictions? Grote. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a surname given after some person or thing. ] The derivation of the name of a race, tribe, etc., from that of a fabulous hero, progenitor, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A principle or mixture of principles derived from Euonymus atropurpureus, or spindle tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. (cf. L. euonymos). fr. Gr. &unr_;, lit., of good name. ] (Bot.) A genus of small European and American trees; the spindle tree. The bark is used as a cathartic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is heteronymous; a thing having a different name or designation from some other thing; -- opposed to homonym. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Hetero- + Gr. "o`nyma, for "o`noma a name. ] Having different names or designations; standing in opposite relations. J. Le Conte.

-- Het"er*on"y*mous*ly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From St. Hieronymus, or Jerome. ] (Eccl.) See Jeronymite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. homonyme. See Homonymous. ] A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear. [ Written also homonyme. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. homonymus, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; the same + &unr_;, for &unr_; name; akin to E. name. ] 1. Having the same name or designation; standing in the same relation; -- opposed to heteronymous. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the same name or designation, but different meaning or relation; hence, equivocal; ambiguous. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In an homonymous manner; so as to have the same name or relation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Equivocally; ambiguously. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. homonymie. ] 1. Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

Homonymy may be as well in place as in persons. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sameness of name or designation of things or persons which are different; ambiguity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (linguistics) a word that is more specific (less abstract) than a given word; a term designating a class which is a subtype of the given word; a subcategory; a subtype. Inverse of hypernym; as, “dog” is a hyponym of “mammal”, and “mammal” is a hyponym of “vertebrate”.
Syn. -- subordinate, subordinate word. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Linguistics) The state or quality of being a hyponym; as, hyponymy is symbolized by the tag “hypon”. [ PJC ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One belonging of the mediæval religious orders called Hermits of St. Jerome. [ Written also Hieronymite. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. mater mother + -nymic, as in patronimic. ] See Metronymic. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ See Metonymy. ] Used by way of metonymy; using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated. -- Met`o*nym"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. metonymia, Gr. metwnymi`a; meta`, indicating change + 'o`nyma , for 'o`noma a name: cf. F. métonymie. See Name. ] (Rhet.) A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections; a city dweller has no wheels, that is, no automobile. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; mother + &unr_;, for &unr_; name. ] Derived from the name of one's mother, or other female ancestor; as, a metronymic name or appellation. -- n. A metronymic appellation. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. bearing a name; as, articles in magazines are usually onymous. Opposite of anonymous.
Syn. -- signed. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ Organo- + Gr.&unr_;, for &unr_;, a name. ] (Biol.) The designation or nomenclature of organs. B. G. Wilder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A paronymous word. [ Written also paronyme. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. parw`nymos; para` beside, near + 'o`noma a name. ] 1. Having the same derivation; allied radically; conjugate; -- said of certain words, as man, mankind, manhood, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having a similar sound, but different orthography and different meaning; -- said of certain words, as all and awl; hair and hare, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being paronymous; also, the use of paronymous words. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. patronymicus, Gr. patrwnymiko`s; path`r father + 'o`noma name: cf. F. patronymique. ] Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. patrwnymiko`n. ] A modification of the father's name borne by the son; a name derived from that of a parent or ancestor; as, Pelides, the son of Peleus; Johnson, the son of John; Macdonald, the son of Donald; Paulowitz, the son of Paul; also, the surname of a family; the family name. M. A. Lower. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In Russia, the patronymic is taken routinely as a middle name, and is commonly used together with the given name in addressing people with whom one is familiar, thus Ivan Ivanovich would be commonly used to address Ivan, whose father was Ivan; likewise Boris Michaelovich would address Boris the son of Michael, and Lena Ivanova would address Lena, the daughter of Ivan. [ PJC ]

a. Same as Patronymic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An object which has a variety of names. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A polynomial name or term. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Polyonomous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. pseudonyme. See Pseudonymous. ] A fictitious name assumed for the time, as by an author; a pen name; an alias. [ Written also pseudonyme. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The using of fictitious names, as by authors. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; pseydh`s false + &unr_;, &unr_;, a name: cf. F. pseudonyme. See Pseudo-, and Name. ] Bearing a false or fictitious name; as, a pseudonymous work. -- Pseu*don"y*mous*ly, adv. -- Pseu*don"y*mous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Synonyms [ F. synonyme, L. synonyma, pl. of synonymum, Gr. synw`nymon. See Synonymous. ] 1. One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be used interchangeably. See under Synonymous. [ Written also synonyme. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All languages tend to clear themselves of synonyms as intellectual culture advances, the superfluous words being taken up and appropriated by new shades and combinations of thought evolved in the progress of society. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

His name has thus become, throughout all civilized countries, a synonym for probity and philanthropy. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

In popular literary acceptation, and as employed in special dictionaries of such words, synonyms are words sufficiently alike in general signification to be liable to be confounded, but yet so different in special definition as to require to be distinguished. G. P. Marsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An incorrect or incorrectly applied scientific name, as a new name applied to a species or genus already properly named, or a specific name preoccupied by that of another species of the same genus; -- so used in the system of nomenclature (which see) in which the correct scientific names of certain natural groups (usually genera, species, and subspecies) are regarded as determined by priority. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. One of two or more words corresponding in meaning but of different languages; a heteronym. [ Rare ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. pl. [ L. ] Synonyms. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Synonymous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Synonymously. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]