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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Casino, the gambling center ... that has made Monte Carlo an international byword for the extravagant display and reckless dispersal of wealth". It is also...
- A dodo, the bird that became a byword in the English language for the extinction of a species...
- Originally, codebooks were often literally books, but today "codebook" is a byword for the complete record of a series of codes, regardless of physical format...
- "Fascism" is today used across the political spectrum as a pejorative or byword for perceived authoritarianism and other forms of political evil. One of...
- mistresses. As a result, his Italianized Valencian surname, Borgia, became a byword for libertinism and nepotism, which are traditionally considered as characterizing...