Synonym

(sin'o-nim,) or SYNONYME. [From Gr. synōnomia, correspondence in name. ] A word having the same signification as some other word. We rarely find two words precisely synonymous in all situations; though many are sometimes synonymous, and at other times not so. Thus, when we speak of the large rolling swell of the sea, we may call it a wave or a billow; but when we speak of the small swell of a pond, we may call it a wave, but not a billow. [s. 874]