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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...
- "Interview with
Grady Nutt
Archived 2010-09-07 at the
Wayback Machine.
Bywords (Episode 196).
Kentucky Educational Television. 1981 (original air-date...
- and excesses, to the
extent that "sybarite" and "sybaritic" have
become bywords for o****nce, luxury, and
outrageous pleasure-s****ing.
Sybaris also ruled...
-
parliamentary seat in the 1964
general election. The town had
become a
byword for
racial division after the
successful candidate,
Peter Griffiths, was...
- "Fascism" is
today used
across the
political spectrum as a
pejorative or
byword for
perceived authoritarianism and
other forms of
political evil. One of...
-
published in
Russian language in the late 19th
century as The
Sayings and
Bywords of the
Russian People,
featuring more than 30,000 entries. They continue...
- the
words of The
Daily Telegraph: "This
multinational banking family is a
byword for wealth,
power – and discretion... The
Rothschild name has
become synonymous...
- 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...
-
widely regarded as a
failed act of appea****t, and the term has
become "a
byword for the ****ility of
appeasing expansionist totalitarian states." The First...
