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ANTONOMASIA

Definition: ANTONOMASIA

ANTONOMASIA

Noun

1. The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ANTONOMASIA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Etymology: Antonomasia \An`to*no*ma"si*a\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression, from to name instead; to name, name.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: ANTONOMASIA

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Nomenclature

Noun: nomenclature; naming; Verb: nuncupation, nomination, baptism; orismology; onomatopoeia; antonomasia.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: ANTONOMASIA

English words defined with "ANTONOMASIA": Antonomastic, Antonomasy. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ANTONOMASIA": Malambruno. (references)
Etymologies containing "ANTONOMASIA": Autonomasy. (references)
Non-English Usage: "ANTONOMASIA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Italian (antonomasia), Spanish (antonomasia).

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ANTONOMASIA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

antonomasia

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: ANTONOMASIA

Language Translations for "ANTONOMASIA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Italian

  

antonomasia. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

antonomasiaay

   

Romanian

  

antonomazã. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

antonomasia. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: ANTONOMASIA

Derivations

Words beginning with "ANTONOMASIA": antonomasias. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "ANTONOMASIA"

Words rhyming with "ANTONOMASIA" (pronounced 'An`to*no*ma"si*a'): Abasia, Acinesia, AEsthesia, Akinesia, Amnesia, Anaesthesia, Analgesia, Aphrasia, Aplasia, Athrepsia, Atresia, Dysaesthesia, Dyscrasia, Ecclesia, Eclampsia, Frambaesia, fuchsia, Halesia, Hemianaesthesia, hyperplasia, macroglossia, magnesia, Marsipobranchia, Monesia, Neoplasia, Palingenesia, Paralgesia, Parnassia, Paronomasia, Parousia, Parrhesia, Parusia, Passiflora, Phlegmasia, Photopsia, Polydipsia, Pseudaesthesia, Quassia, Rafflesia, Russia, Sauropsida, Silesia, Syngenesia, Tephrosia, Xenelasia. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ANTONOMASIA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-i-m-n-n-o-o-s-t"

-3 letters: amanitas, amotions, sonatina.

-4 letters: amanita, amnions, amotion, animato, anoints, anosmia, antiman, atamans, mananas, manitos, mansion, motions, nations, notions, onanism, onanist, stamina.

-5 letters: amnion, amnios, animas, anions, anoint, ataman, atmans, inmost, manana, manats, manias, manito, mannas, mantas, mantis, matins, monist, motion, nanism, nasion, nation, nitons, nomina, notion, onions, simoon, somata, sonant, sonata, tinman, tomans.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-i-m-n-n-o-o-s-t"
 

+1 letter: antonomasias.

 

+5 letters: transformational.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ANTONOMASIA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 4E 54 4F 4E 4F 4D 41 53 49 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -.    -    ---    -.    ---    --    .-    ...    ..    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01001110 01010100 01001111 01001110 01001111 01001101 01000001 01010011 01001001 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#78 &#84 &#79 &#78 &#79 &#77 &#65 &#83 &#73 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004E 0054 004F 004E 004F 004D 0041 0053 0049 0041

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3548544948494735534335

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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