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Plural of synonym

regular plural

The plural of synonym is synonyms.

Forms of synonym

Singularsynonym /ˈsɪn.əˌnɪm/
Pluralsynonyms
Countablecountable

Synonyms in a sentence

  • Near-synonyms: near-synonym, parasynonym, plesionym
  • Note that Oracle includes both private and public synonyms.2011, Paul Nielsen, Uttam Parui, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Bible
  • "Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus that lists words under general concepts rather than just close synonyms.From the entry thesaurus
  • The two words are near synonyms.From the entry near
  • However, if one looks up the word histoire, one discovered one of the synonyms is, naturally, conte.2021 January 20, Mark Axelrod-Sokolov, Untheories of Fiction: Literary Essays from Diderot to Markson, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry ouroborosian

Meaning of synonym

  1. noun A term (word or phrase) which is synonymous with others.
  2. noun The subset of those names other than the one to be used according to the rules.
  3. noun Any name that has been applied to a taxon other than the one to be used, including those not allowed by the rules such as misspellings or nomina nuda.

Full definition of synonym

Questions about the plural of synonym

What is the plural of synonym?
The plural of synonym is synonyms.
Is synonym countable?
Synonym is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: synonym (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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