synonymy
noun[U]
languagespecializeduk/sɪˈnɒn.ɪ.mi/us/sɪˈnɑː.nə.mi/thestateof beingsynonymous(= havings the same oralmostthe samemeaningas another word or phrase in the samelanguage)or thefactthat words orphrasesaresynonymous:
同义There is no such thing asperfectsynonymy, but themeaningsof manypairsof words arecloseenough for thistermto be used in thecontextof acrossword.不存在完全同义的词语,但许多词对的含义足够相似,可以在填字游戏中使用“…的同义词”这种用法。
- Theyexaminedchildren'sunderstandingof synonymy, which like homonymyrequireschildrentounderstandtherelationshipbetweenlinguisticformandmeaning.
- Childrenlearntoaccepttwolabelsfor the sameobject(synonymy).
- Theychosetotestthehypothesisthatchildrenavoidsynonymy in the earlystagesoflexicaldevelopment.
- As we allknow, synonymy inlanguagedoes notyieldto themathematicallawthatstatesthat thingsequalto the same thing areequalto each other.
Linguistic terms & linguistic style
- affricate
- allophone
- allophony
- anaphor
- anaphora
- chatty
- colloquial
- distributive
- double entendre
- downtoner
- emphatic
- entailment
- etymological
- flowery
- oxymoron
- parallelism
- philological
- polysemy
- portmanteau word
- prescriptivism
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