patrimony | (noun) an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) | Synonyms: birthright |
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(noun) a church endowment | - |
patronym | (noun) a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor) | Synonyms: patronymic |
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patronymic | (adjective) of or derived from a personal or family name | - |
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(noun) a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor) | Synonyms: patronym |
peony | (noun) any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers | Synonyms: paeony |
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phony | (adjective) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance | Synonyms: bastard, bogus, fake, phoney |
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(noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, pretender |
polony | (noun) another name for Bologna sausage | - |
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polyphony | (noun) music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments | Synonyms: concerted music, polyphonic music |
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pony | (noun) any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder | - |
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(noun) a range horse of the western United States | - |
(noun) an informal term for a racehorse | - |
(noun) a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey | Synonyms: jigger, shot glass |
(noun) a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) | Synonyms: crib, trot |
ponycart | (noun) a cart with an underslung axle and two seats | Synonyms: donkey cart, pony cart, tub-cart |
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ponytail | (noun) a hair style that draws the hair back so that it hangs down in back of the head like a pony's tail | - |
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pseudonym | (noun) a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role | Synonyms: anonym, nom de guerre |
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pseudonymous | (adjective) bearing or identified by an assumed (often pen) name | - |
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quadraphony | (noun) a stereophonic sound recording or reproducing system using four separate channels | Synonyms: quadraphonic system, quadriphonic system |
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radiotelephony | (noun) telephony that uses transmission by radio rather than by wire | Synonyms: radiotelephone, wireless telephone |
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retronym | (noun) a word introduced because an existing term has become inadequate | - |
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ribbony | (adjective) long and thin; resembling a ribbon | Synonyms: ribbonlike |
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sanctimony | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimoniousness |
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sardonyx | (noun) an onyx characterized by parallel layers of sard and a different colored mineral | - |
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scammony | (noun) twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin | Synonyms: Convolvulus scammonia |
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(noun) resin from the root of Convolvulus scammonia | - |
(noun) tropical American morning glory | Synonyms: Ipomoea orizabensis |
scammonyroot | (noun) tropical American prostrate or climbing herbaceous perennial having an enormous starchy root; sometimes held to be source of the sweet potato | Synonyms: Ipomoea fastigiata, Ipomoea panurata, man-of-the-earth, manroot, wild potato vine, wild sweet potato vine |
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schizogony | (noun) asexual reproduction by multiple fission; characteristic of many sporozoan protozoans | - |
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simony | (noun) traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments | Synonyms: barratry |
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stereophony | (noun) reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound | Synonyms: stereo, stereo system, stereophonic system |
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stony | (adjective) hard as granite | Synonyms: granitelike, granitic, rocklike |
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(adjective) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings | Synonyms: flint, flinty, granitic, obdurate |
(adjective) abounding in rocks or stones | Synonyms: bouldered, bouldery, rocky |
stonyhearted | (adjective) devoid of feeling for others | Synonyms: hardhearted, unfeeling |
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sulfonylurea | (noun) antidiabetic consisting of any of several drugs that reduce the level of glucose in the blood; used to treat diabetes mellitus | - |
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symphony | (noun) a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra | Synonyms: symphonic music |
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(noun) a large orchestra; can perform symphonies | Synonyms: philharmonic, symphony orchestra |
synchrony | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronicity, synchronisation, synchronism, synchronization, synchronizing |
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synonym | (noun) two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context | Synonyms: equivalent word |
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synonymist | (noun) a student of synonyms | - |
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synonymity | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning | Synonyms: synonymousness, synonymy |
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synonymous | (adjective) (of words) meaning the same or nearly the same | - |
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synonymously | (adverb) in a synonymous manner | - |
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synonymousness | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning | Synonyms: synonymity, synonymy |
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synonymy | (noun) the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning | Synonyms: synonymity, synonymousness |
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syntony | (noun) the state of being normally responsive to and in harmony with the environment. | - |
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telephony | (noun) transmitting speech at a distance | Synonyms: telephone |
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testimony | (noun) a solemn statement made under oath | - |
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(noun) an assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact | - |
(noun) something that serves as evidence | Synonyms: testimonial |
theogony | (noun) the study of the origins and genealogy of the gods | - |
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toponym | (noun) the name by which a geographical place is known | Synonyms: place name |
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toponymy | (noun) the branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language | Synonyms: toponomy |
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(noun) the nomenclature of regional anatomy | Synonyms: toponomy |
troponym | (noun) a word that denotes a manner of doing something | Synonyms: manner name |
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troponymy | (noun) the place names of a region or a language considered collectively | Synonyms: troponomy |
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(noun) the semantic relation of being a manner of does something | - |