Synonym
word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A synonym is a word (or a phrase) which means the same thing as another word or phrase.[1][2]
Examples:
- car and automobile
- baby and infant
- child and kid
- make and create.[3]
- student and pupil
- sick and ill
- scared and frightened
- rich and wealthy
Synonyms can be nouns, verbs, adverbs or adjectives, but both words must be of the same part of speech. That means, only a noun can be a synonym of another noun, only a verb can be a synonym of another verb, and so on.
One can find sets of synonyms in a thesaurus, which is a book listing groups of related words.
Some words are near-synonyms, which have similar but not exactly the same meaning.
Examples of proper nouns, such as names of these languages, having synonyms or near-synonyms include: