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onomasticides

onomasticides is the plural of onomasticide.

Meaning of onomasticide

Noun

onomasticide (plural onomasticides)

  1. The deliberate changing of foreign surnames into local equivalents

Questions about onomasticides

What is onomasticides the plural of?
Onomasticides is the plural of onomasticide.

Words near onomasticides in the dictionary

  1. onomastica
  2. onomastically
  3. onomastician
  4. onomasticians
  5. onomasticide
  6. onomasticides
  7. onomasticon
  8. onomasticons
  9. onomastics
  10. onomasts
  11. onomatapoeia

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Adapted from Wiktionary: onomasticides (page history and authors); onomasticide (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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