synonem, synonyme, synonIma

(Fr. synonyme, from Lat. synonym a, neut. pl. of synonym us; Gr. synonymos=of like meaning; syn= with, and onoma =a name.] 1. The quality of being synonymous or of expre *2. A thing of the same name. "We having three rivers of note synonymies with her." -Drayton : Polyolbion , s. 2. (Illust.) 2. A system of synonyms. 1. Ord . Lang .: A work having the same, or nearly the same, meaning as another. Properly a syno- nym is a word which is the precise equivalent of, or is identical in meaning with, another word of the same language and of the same grammatical cla . Bot. The adhesion of several embryos. II. Rhet.: A figure by which synonymous words are used to amplify a discourse.