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Meaning of "paronomastic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PARONOMASTIC

paronomastic  [ˌpærənəʊˈmæstɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PARONOMASTIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Paronomastic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PARONOMASTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Pun

The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play that suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. These ambiguities can arise from the intentional use of homophonic, homographic, metonymic, or metaphorical language. A pun differs from a malapropism in that a malapropism uses an incorrect expression that alludes to another expression, but a pun uses a correct expression that alludes to another expression. Henri Bergson defined a pun as a sentence or utterance in which "the same sentence appears to offer two independent meanings, but it is only an appearance; in reality there are two different sentences made up of different words, but claiming to be one and the same because both have the same sound". Puns may be regarded as in-jokes or idiomatic constructions, given that their usage and meaning are entirely local to a particular language and its culture. For example, "Camping is intense." Puns are used to create humor and sometimes require a large vocabulary to understand.

Definition of paronomastic in the English dictionary

The definition of paronomastic in the dictionary is of, relating to, or characteristic of a play on words, esp a pun.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PARONOMASTIC


antonomastic
ˌæntənəˈmæstɪk
docimastic
ˌdɒsɪˈmæstɪk
drastic
ˈdræstɪk
dysplastic
dɪsˈplæstɪk
elastic
ɪˈlæstɪk
enthusiastic
ɪnˌθjuːzɪˈæstɪk
fantastic
fænˈtæstɪk
gymnastic
dʒɪmˈnæstɪk
hypoplastic
ˌhaɪpəʊˈplæstɪk
inelastic
ˌɪnɪˈlæstɪk
mastic
ˈmæstɪk
neoplastic
ˌniːəʊˈplæstɪk
onomastic
ˌɒnəˈmæstɪk
plastic
ˈplæstɪk
polymastic
ˌpɒlɪˈmæstɪk
pyroclastic
ˌpaɪrəʊˈklæstɪk
sarcastic
sɑːˈkæstɪk
scholastic
skəˈlæstɪk
stochastic
stɒˈkæstɪk
thermoplastic
ˌθɜːməʊˈplæstɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PARONOMASTIC

paroicous
parol
parolable
parole
parole board
parole hearing
parole officer
parole violation
parolee
paronomasia
paronomastical
paronomastically
paronomasy
paronychia
paronychial
paronym
paronymic
paronymous
paronymously
paronymy

WORDS THAT END LIKE PARONOMASTIC

antineoplastic
bombastic
domestic
dynastic
fibroblastic
foam plastic
hyperplastic
lymphoblastic
megaloblastic
myeloblastic
orgastic
orgiastic
osteoblastic
phantastic
reinforced plastic
Silastic
spastic
superelastic
trophoblastic
unenthusiastic
viscoelastic

Synonyms and antonyms of paronomastic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «paronomastic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PARONOMASTIC

Find out the translation of paronomastic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of paronomastic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «paronomastic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

paronomastic
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

paronomástica
570 millions of speakers

English

paronomastic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

paronomastic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

paronomastic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

paronomastic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

paronomastic
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

paronomastic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

paronomastique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Paronomastik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

paronomastische
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

paronomastic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

paronomastic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Paronomastic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

paronomastic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

paronomastic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परानोमितीय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

paronomastic
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

paronomastica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

paronomastic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

paronomastic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

paronomastic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

paronomastic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

paronomastic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

paronomastic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

paronomastic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of paronomastic

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PARONOMASTIC»

The term «paronomastic» is barely ever used and occupies the 206.116 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «paronomastic».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PARONOMASTIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «paronomastic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «paronomastic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about paronomastic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARONOMASTIC»

Discover the use of paronomastic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to paronomastic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Modality and the Biblical Hebrew Infinitive Absolute
Figure 18: Detailed Modal Profile of Paronomastic Infinitives Absolute in Unequal Social Contexts Modality Verb Sequence and Modal Contexts of Paronomastic Infinitives Absolute Hebrew grammars and syntaxes differ on the significance of ...
Scott N. Callaham, 2010
2
The World of the Aramaeans: Studies in Honour of Paul-Eugène ...
In each of these texts, a set of ritual instructions uses a paronomastic infinitive construction in a concluding statement. It is noteworthy, however, that both contexts in Leviticus are in the third person and in that way not directly analogous to the ...
P.M. Michèle Daviau, Michael Weigl, John W. Wevers, 2001
3
Congress Volume Helsinki 2010
Gibson calls the paronomastic infinitive absolute “a special kind of subject complement” (Gibson 1994 §101, p. 123). 2 The total number depends in a few cases on the interpretation of the Hebrew form. At times the infinitive absolute and the ...
Martti Nissinen, 2012
4
Studies in Hebrew and Aramatic Syntax: Presented to ...
absolute is clearly restricted to paronomastic constructions, emphasizing or intensifying the verbal expression. In the poetry of Yannay, however, hardly any form of the infinitive absolute is extant except for a few biblical citations as in a ...
Karel Jongeling, Hendrika Lena Murre-van den Berg, H. L. Murre-Van Den Berg, 1991
5
Confucianism and Women: A Philosophical Interpretation
The correlation between ru and soft, construed by Xu Shen, a Han imperial scholar of the state academy, is paronomastic in nature, and the method of paronomasia has since then become the foundation of later scholars' understanding of the ...
Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee, 2012
6
Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement
Under the paronomastic display of choreography, dance emerges as a disembodied power ready to be occupied by any body. By peeling off dance from the dancer, the dancer can be inhabited by other nonpreformed steps; and choreography ...
Andre Lepecki, 2006
7
An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax
By bracketing the paronomastic infinitive with the verb, the verbal idea is intensified. The effect of the infinitive refers to the entire clause, whence comes the term absolute complement. The infinitive usually emphasizes not the meaning ...
Bruce K. Waltke, Michael Patrick O'Connor, 1990
8
Aramaic in Its Historical and Linguistic Setting
Secondly, among the cases where the Vorlage does indeed feature the infinitive absolute, one observes that in TgJon the infinitive absolute maintains itself only in paronomastic use. All other cases of infinitive absolute in the Vorlage (in the ...
Holger Gzella, M. L. Folmer, 2008
9
(Yehovah): The Divine Name in the Bible
Th. C. Vriezen has drawn attention to the “paronomastic” aspect of the formula, ' ehyeh 'asher 'ehyeh, a stylistic method of expressing either something undetermined, idem per idem, i.e., that which cannot be fully defined, or the idea of totality ...
G. Parke-Taylor, 1975
10
Selected Writings: Early Slavic Paths and Crossroads
3 6ojKHi* Haiiii* Hbmt HOIHI*, and this paregmenon nHBa-Hcnm* is heralded by the recurrent paronomastic syllable KoFIMevib Both expressive troparia which glorify the martyr's Imitatio Christi, III.l and III. 3, contain tautological passages ...
Roman Jakobson, Stephen Rudy, 1985

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PARONOMASTIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term paronomastic is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett
Shoptaw gives us a handy critical term for those words not present on the page but called to mind via associative, paronomastic, or other ... «TheStranger.com, Sep 14»
2
Taki: What Roger Federer and Anthony Weiner have in common
Politicians are not known for their dignity, and the paronomastic Weiner and dignity were and are poles apart. He is a very ugly man to begin ... «Spectator.co.uk, Aug 13»
3
'La Folie Baudelaire,' by Roberto Calasso
Already in his title, Calasso is eruditely punning, or as he would probably say, paronomastic. For a folly is not only a common human flaw; it is ... «New York Times, Nov 12»
4
Mummy puns; Giving Guide; Music in the Mall
Journal Sentinel readers have been submitting painful paronomastic punch lines online and in e-mails in response to our story on the exhibit's ... «Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Dec 10»
5
The Resilient Czech Spirit, on Display in Bohumil Hrabal's "Closely …
The most obvious paronomastic name is the protagonist of I Served the King of England, Ditie, which means child in Czech. The character Ditie is not only ... «Student Pulse, Mar 10»

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