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succedaneum

/sʌksɪˈdeɪnɪəm/

succedaneum noun: a substitute, replacement for something else, particularly of a medicine used in place of another.

Noun

succedaneum (plural succedaneums or succedanea)

  1. A substitute, replacement for something else, particularly of a medicine used in place of another.
    • It is not your purses that suffer; your farm-rents, your commerces, your mill-revenues, loud as ye lament over these; no, it is not these alone, but a far deeper than these: it is your Souls that lie dead, crushed down under despicable Nightmares, Atheisms, Brain-fumes; and are not Souls at all...1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter XIII, Democracy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern...
    • It had not been ordered by Mr. Rerechild, the Barchester doctor whom she employed; and then the young mother mentioned some shockingly modern succedaneum, which Mr. Rerechild's new lights had taught him to recommend.1857, Anthony Trollope, “Mr. Arabin Reads Himself in at St. Ewold’s”, in Barchester Towers. […], copyright edition, volume I, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1859, →OCLC, page 289

Forms of succedaneum

pluralsuccedaneums
pluralsuccedanea

Origin of succedaneum

Modern Latin, neuter singular of Latin succēdāneus (“acting as substitute”).

Questions about succedaneum

What does succedaneum mean?
Succedaneum means a substitute, replacement for something else, particularly of a medicine used in place of another.
What part of speech is succedaneum?
Succedaneum is a noun.
How do you pronounce succedaneum?
Succedaneum is pronounced /sʌksɪˈdeɪnɪəm/.
What is the plural of succedaneum?
The plural of succedaneum is succedaneums.

Words near succedaneum in the dictionary

  1. succdems
  2. succedanea
  3. succedaneaflavanone
  4. succedaneous
  5. succedaneously
  6. succedaneum
  7. succedaneums
  8. succede
  9. succeded
  10. succedent
  11. succedents

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