defamation | (noun) an abusive attack on a person's character or good name | Synonyms: aspersion, calumny, denigration, slander |
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(noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumniation, calumny, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement |
defamer | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, libeler, maligner, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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fame | (noun) the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed | Synonyms: celebrity, renown |
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(noun) favorable public reputation | - |
familiar | (noun) a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard | Synonyms: familiar spirit |
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(noun) a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support | - |
(noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: associate, companion, comrade, fellow |
familiarisation | (noun) the experience of becoming familiar with something | Synonyms: familiarization |
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familiarity | (noun) an act of undue intimacy | Synonyms: impropriety, indecorum, liberty |
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(noun) usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known | - |
(noun) close or warm friendship | Synonyms: closeness, intimacy |
(noun) a casual manner | Synonyms: casualness |
(noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversance, conversancy |
familiarization | (noun) the experience of becoming familiar with something | Synonyms: familiarisation |
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family | (noun) primary social group; parents and children | Synonyms: family unit |
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(noun) people descended from a common ancestor | Synonyms: family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept |
(noun) a social unit living together | Synonyms: home, house, household, menage |
(noun) (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera | - |
(noun) a collection of things sharing a common attribute | Synonyms: category, class |
(noun) an association of people who share common beliefs or activities | Synonyms: fellowship |
(noun) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities | Synonyms: crime syndicate, mob, syndicate |
(noun) a person having kinship with another or others | Synonyms: kin, kinsperson |
famine | (noun) a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death | - |
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(noun) an acute insufficiency | Synonyms: dearth, shortage |
famishment | (noun) a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period | Synonyms: starvation |
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famotidine | (noun) a histamine blocker (trade name Pepcid) used to treat peptic ulcers and gastritis and esophageal reflux | Synonyms: Pepcid |
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famulus | (noun) a close attendant (as to a scholar) | - |
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infamy | (noun) a state of extreme dishonor | Synonyms: opprobrium |
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(noun) evil fame or public reputation | - |
materfamilias | (noun) a female head of a family or tribe | Synonyms: matriarch |
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overfamiliarity | (noun) The state of being common or repeated to the point of being unnoticed or annoying. | - |
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paterfamilias | (noun) the male head of family or tribe | Synonyms: patriarch |
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rifampin | (noun) an antibacterial drug (trade names Rifadin and Rimactane) used to treat tuberculosis | Synonyms: Rifadin, Rimactane |
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subfamily | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic category below a family | - |
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sulfamethazine | (noun) a sulfa drug used like sulfadiazine and also in veterinary medicine | Synonyms: sulfamezathine |
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sulfamethoxazole | (noun) a sulfonamide (trade name Gantanol) used to treat infections (especially infections of the urinary tract) | Synonyms: Gantanol |
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sulfamezathine | (noun) a sulfa drug used like sulfadiazine and also in veterinary medicine | Synonyms: sulfamethazine |
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superfamily | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group ranking below an order but above a family | - |
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unfamiliarity | (noun) unusualness as a consequence of not being well known | Synonyms: strangeness |
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