synonym for/of• I find that the phenomenon of the Stasi is an exception: universally known and already a synonym forevil.• I was simply using that phrase as a synonym for a short, single event.• Midas, whose name has become a synonym for a rich man, had very little profit from his riches.• The Standard colorimetric reaction is a synonym for the Van Handel-Zilversmit reaction.• Normal and satisfactory come to be synonyms forsubstandard.• Inappropriateness is diagnosed by the fact that there exists a cognitivesynonym of the selector for which the selectee is a philonym.• In medicine, lack of progress is synonym of backwardness.• Virion: synonym forvirusparticle.
Originsynonym
(1400-1500)Latinsynonymum, from Greek, from synonymos“synonymous”, from syn- ( → SYN-) + onyma“name”