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  2. Posthumous - Wikipedia

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    Posthumous may refer to: Posthumous award – an award, prize or medal granted after the recipient's death; Posthumous publication – publishing of creative work ...

  3. Posthumous name - Wikipedia

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    Although most posthumous names are given to royalty, some posthumous names are given to honour significant people without hereditary titles, such as courtiers or military generals. To create a posthumous name, one or more adjectives are inserted before the deceased's title. The name of the state or domain of the owner may be added to avoid ...

  4. List of films released posthumously - Wikipedia

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    Dean received a posthumous Best Actor Oscar nomination for his work on Giant. Lady Godiva of Coventry (1955), released eight months after Alec Harford's death. Husbands Beware (1956), Creeps (1956), Flagpole Jitters (1956) and For Crimin' Out Loud (1956), both released after Shemp Howard's death from a heart attack.

  5. Posthumous promotion - Wikipedia

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    Posthumous promotions are most often associated with the military, but may be granted in other fields such as business, public safety, science, or the arts. The higher rank is typically intended as a ceremonial recognition of one's achievements, bestowed after their death, though in the case of the military can occur erroneously if the ...

  6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. 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 ...

  7. 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.

  8. Postumus (praenomen) - Wikipedia

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    Popular etymology connects this praenomen with the modern adjective posthumous, meaning "after death", from the Latin roots for "after" and "earth" (as a metaphor for burial), and assume that it was given to children born after the death of their fathers. Such associations date from at least the time of Varro, and probably contributed to the ...

  9. Posthumous award - Wikipedia

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    A posthumous award is an award that is granted after the recipient has died. [1] Many prizes, medals, and awards can be granted posthumously. [2] Military decorations