Definition of Byword. Meaning of Byword. Synonyms of Byword

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Definition of Byword

Byword
Byword By"word`, n. [AS. b["i]word; b["i], E. by + word.] 1. A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency. I knew a wise man that had it for a byword. --Bacon. 2. The object of a contemptuous saying. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen. --Ps. xliv. 14

Meaning of Byword from wikipedia

- up byword in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Byword may refer to: Byword (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse and sire from the United Kingdom Byword (saying)...
- A proverb (from Latin: proverbium) or an adage is a simple, traditional saying that expresses a perceived truth based on common sense or experience. Proverbs...
- Byword (foaled 13 February 2006) is a British-bred, French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Unraced as a two-year-old, he showed promising form...
- different types of snow. Henceforth in the United Kingdom, the phrase became a byword for euphemistic and pointless excuses. The phrase originated in an interview...
- Chen Shimei is a Chinese opera character and a byword in China for a heartless and unfaithful man. He was married to Qin Xianglian, also translated as...
- Artists and writers have referenced the story, and King Cophetua has become a byword for "a man who falls in love with a woman instantly and proposes marriage...
- dear to me, especially as he will be called by that dear name which is a byword for all that is great and good." Consequently, he was baptised "Albert Frederick...
- pen name Diedrich Knickerbocker by writer Washington Irving, and was a byword for a New York patrician, comparable to a "Boston Brahmin". The Knickerbocker...
- West, where usurpation was rare) that the modern term "byzantine" became a byword for political intrigue and conspiracy. For usurpation in the Eastern Roman...
- past and to honour its discoverer, Abel Tasman. The old name had become a byword for horror in England because of the severity of its convict settlements...