Synonym

A synonym is a word (or a phrase) which means the same thing as another word or phrase.^[1][2]

Examples:

• car and automobile
• baby and infant
• child and kid
• make and create.^[3]
• student and pupil
• sick and ill
• scared and frightened
• rich and wealthy

Synonyms can be nouns, verbs, adverbs or adjectives, but both words must be of the same part of speech. That means, only a noun can be a synonym of another noun, only a verb can be a synonym of another verb, and so on.

One can find sets of synonyms in a thesaurus, which is a book listing groups of related words.

Some words are near-synonyms, which have similar but not exactly the same meaning.

Examples of proper nouns, such as names of these languages, having synonyms or near-synonyms include:

• Saimese also known as Thai^[4]
• Urdu also known as Lashkari^[5]
• Ghurkhali also known as Nepali^[6]
• Euskara also known as Basque^[7]
• Ute also known as Noochew^[8]
• Persian also known as Farsi or Parsi^[9]
• Mynamar also known as Burmese^[10]

1. ↑ Definition of synonym from Oxford Dictionaries Online. OxfordDictionaries.com, 2011. web: OD-syn Archived 2011-06-03 at the Wayback Machine.
2. ↑ Synonym - Definition and more from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary. 2011. webpage: MW-syn.
3. ↑ "Another word for make".
4. ↑ Hudak, Thomas John. "Thai." The world's major languages. Routledge, 2018. 679-695.
5. ↑ Rana, Toqir A., et al. "An Unsupervised Approach for Sentiment Analysis on Social Media Short Text Classification in Roman Urdu." Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing 21.2 (2021): 1-16.
6. ↑ Ghosh, Sujit. "Khas-kura Nepali and Cultural Consolidation in Darjeeling Hills: A Genesis." (2015).
7. ↑ Laka Mugarza, Itziar. A brief grammar of Euskara, the Basque language. Universidad del País Vasco, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Euskarazko Errektoreordetza, 1996.
8. ↑ Leap, William L. American Indian English. University of Utah Press, 2012.
9. ↑ Farhady, Hossein, and Kobra Tavassoli. "Assessing Farsi." The companion to language assessment 4 (2013): 1790-1798.
10. ↑ ROSS, ANDREW J. "Supplement to the Burmese (Myanmar) amber checklist and bibliography, 2020." Palaeoentomology 4.1 (2021): 057-076.