[
  {
    "meta": {
      "id": "synonym",
      "uuid": "b0b0a6a5-aa81-4a5d-a8ab-77b5c48e6e61",
      "sort": "195039500",
      "src": "collegiate",
      "section": "alpha",
      "stems": [
        "synonym",
        "synonymic",
        "synonymical",
        "synonymities",
        "synonymity",
        "synonyms"
      ],
      "offensive": false
    },
    "hwi": {
      "hw": "syn*o*nym",
      "prs": [
        {
          "mw": "ˈsi-nə-ˌnim",
          "sound": {
            "audio": "synony01",
            "ref": "c",
            "stat": "1"
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "fl": "noun",
    "def": [
      {
        "sseq": [
          [
            [
              "sense",
              {
                "sn": "1",
                "dt": [
                  [
                    "text",
                    "{bc}one of two or more words or expressions of the same language that have the same or nearly the same meaning in some or all senses"
                  ]
                ]
              }
            ]
          ],
          [
            [
              "sense",
              {
                "sn": "2 a",
                "dt": [
                  [
                    "text",
                    "{bc}a word or phrase that by association is held to {d_link|embody|embody} something (such as a concept or quality) "
                  ],
                  [
                    "vis",
                    [
                      {
                        "t": "a tyrant whose name has become a {wi}synonym{/wi} for oppression"
                      }
                    ]
                  ]
                ]
              }
            ],
            [
              "sense",
              {
                "sn": "b",
                "dt": [
                  [
                    "text",
                    "{bc}{sx|metonym||}"
                  ]
                ]
              }
            ]
          ],
          [
            [
              "sense",
              {
                "sn": "3",
                "dt": [
                  [
                    "text",
                    "{bc}one of two or more scientific names used to designate the same taxonomic group {dx}compare {dxt|homonym||}{/dx}"
                  ]
                ]
              }
            ]
          ]
        ]
      }
    ],
    "uros": [
      {
        "ure": "syn*o*nym*ic",
        "prs": [
          {
            "mw": "ˌsi-nə-ˈni-mik",
            "sound": {
              "audio": "synony02",
              "ref": "c",
              "stat": "1"
            }
          }
        ],
        "vrs": [
          {
            "vl": "or less commonly",
            "va": "syn*o*nym*i*cal",
            "prs": [
              {
                "mw": "ˌsi-nə-ˈni-mi-kəl",
                "sound": {
                  "audio": "synony03",
                  "ref": "c",
                  "stat": "1"
                }
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "fl": "adjective"
      },
      {
        "ure": "syn*o*nym*i*ty",
        "prs": [
          {
            "mw": "ˌsi-nə-ˈni-mə-tē",
            "sound": {
              "audio": "synony04",
              "ref": "c",
              "stat": "1"
            }
          }
        ],
        "fl": "noun"
      }
    ],
    "quotes": [
      {
        "t": "I very much enjoyed the chapter on obscenity, which asks the difficult question of how words deemed taboo differ from their inoffensive {qword}synonyms{/qword} …  . It can't obviously be the referent of the term, since that is the same, and it isn't merely that the taboo words are more accurately descriptive …",
        "aq": {
          "auth": "Colin McGinn",
          "source": "{it}The New York Review of Books{/it}",
          "aqdate": "27 Sept. 2007"
        }
      },
      {
        "t": "The debris hurtled by so fast that the New York Times editorial page seemed to run out of {qword}synonyms{/qword} for disgust, revulsion and abuse.",
        "aq": {
          "auth": "Michael Duffy et al.",
          "source": "{it}Time{/it}",
          "aqdate": "5 Mar. 2001"
        }
      },
      {
        "t": "\"Hollywood\" is not, of course, a place. Nor is it a {qword}synonym{/qword} for the entertainment business. There are upstanding citizens who make their living in that field.",
        "aq": {
          "auth": "P. J. O'Rourke",
          "source": "{it}Republican Party Reptile{/it}",
          "aqdate": "1987"
        }
      }
    ],
    "et": [
      [
        "text",
        "Middle English {it}sinonyme{/it}, from Latin {it}synonymum{/it}, from Greek {it}synōnymon{/it}, from neuter of {it}synōnymos{/it} synonymous, from {it}syn-{/it} + {it}onyma{/it} name {ma}{mat|name|}{/ma}"
      ]
    ],
    "date": "15th century{ds||1||}",
    "shortdef": [
      "one of two or more words or expressions of the same language that have the same or nearly the same meaning in some or all senses",
      "a word or phrase that by association is held to embody something (such as a concept or quality)",
      "metonym"
    ]
  }
]