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• n  two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context

• Sheik Mo has made Dubai an internationally recognized synonym for success in a Middle East that has been plagued by war, civil discontent and religious extremism.
• Thus died the man whose name had become a worldwide synonym for traitor.
• Very quickly, however, Piltdown became a synonym for phony; and England's claim to antiquity was cut short by several hundred thousand years.

• equivalent word

• antonym

News & Articles

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• Finding ‘Salvation’ in ‘Shalom’
  Christian churches have convinced many believers that “salvation” only exists in the afterlife. But a truer understanding of the word – and its synonym “shalom” – reveals them to be messages calling for the present world to become a place of human fulfillment, writes Rev. Howard Bess.
  June 9, 2013 - consortiumnews.com