Synonym

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A synonym is a word that has the same (or almost the same) meaning as another word.


Examples:

  • car and automobile
  • baby and infant
  • child and kid
  • student and pupil
  • sick and ill


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.


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