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  2. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    The word poecilonym is a rare synonym of the word synonym. It is not entered in most major dictionaries and is a curiosity or piece of trivia for being an autological word because of its meta quality as a synonym of synonym. Antonyms are words with opposite or nearly opposite meanings. For example: hot ↔ cold, large ↔ small, thick ↔ thin ...

  3. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  4. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - Wikipedia

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    The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE), first published by Longman in 1978, [1] is an advanced learner's dictionary, providing definitions using a restricted vocabulary, helping non-native English speakers understand meanings easily. It is available in four configurations:

  5. WordNet - Wikipedia

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    WordNet aims to cover most everyday words and does not include much domain-specific terminology. WordNet is the most commonly used computational lexicon of English for word-sense disambiguation (WSD), a task aimed at assigning the context-appropriate meanings (i.e. synset members) to words in a text. [14]

  6. Cognitive synonymy - Wikipedia

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    It is a stricter (more precise) technical definition of synonymy, specifically for theoretical (e.g., linguistic and philosophical) purposes. In usage employing this definition, synonyms with greater differences are often called near-synonyms rather than synonyms [1] (compare also plesionyms).

  7. Dictionary (software) - Wikipedia

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    Words can be entered in the search bar by just typing the first few letters. The application will perform an incremental search to show any matching headwords or forms and will try to bypass spelling errors. Clicking on any word in a definition searches for that word in the dictionary again.

  8. Contemporary (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary is the historical period that is immediately relevant to the present and is a certain perspective of modern history. Contemporary may also refer to: Contemporary philosophy; Contemporary art, post-World War II art; Contemporary dance, a modern genre of concert dance; Contemporary literature, post-World War II literature

  9. Circular definition - Wikipedia

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    Narrowly circular definitions simply define one word in terms of another. A broadly circular definition has a larger circle of words. For example, the definition of the primary word is defined using two other words, which are defined with two other words, etc., creating a definitional chain.