- 1同義的；（比喻）幾乎劃上等號、密不可分
When one word is "synonymous with" another, the two words mean almost the same thing, like "big" and "large." But the more common everyday use is a bit different: when a person, place, or thing becomes "synonymous with" an idea, it means people always think of that idea when they think of that thing - the two are so closely linked in people's minds that they feel like the same thing, like "her name became synonymous with success."
From the word’s history
From Medieval Latin synōnymus, from Ancient Greek synṓnymos; synonym + -ous.
源自中世紀拉丁文 synōnymus，來自古希臘文 συνώνυμος。
組成"syn-" (together, same) + "onym" (name, from Greek onyma) - literally "having the same name."
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- synonymsynonymous is the adjective form built directly on 'synonym'
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
synonymousadj/sɪˈnɒnɪməs/
- 1
Having a similar (sometimes identical) meaning. (See Usage notes below)
- He was not far wrong, for nothing strikes me more forcibly than the universal tendency to grumble: conversation and complaint are synonymous terms.
- Jews and Israel are not synonymous; nor is support for Palestine synonymous with anti-Semitism; nor is questioning the orthodoxy of the Republican party, which the majority of us do with relish, an insult to Jewry.
- 2
Of, or being a synonym.
- 3
biologygeneticsmedicineSuch that both its forms yield the same sequenced protein.
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