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Meaning of "paronym" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PARONYM

Via Late Latin from Greek paronumon, from para-1 (beside) + onoma a name.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PARONYM

paronym  [ˈpærənɪm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PARONYM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Paronym is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PARONYM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of paronym in the English dictionary

The definition of paronym in the dictionary is a cognate word.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PARONYM


acronym
ˈækrənɪm
allonym
ˈælənɪm
anonym
ˈænənɪm
antonym
ˈæntənɪm
cryptonym
ˈkrɪptənɪm
homonym
ˈhɒmənɪm
metonym
ˈmɛtənɪm
polyonym
ˈpɒlɪənɪm
retronym
ˈretrənɪm
synonym
ˈsɪnənɪm
tautonym
ˈtɔːtənɪm
toponym
ˈtɒpənɪm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PARONYM

parole officer
parole violation
parolee
paronomasia
paronomastic
paronomastical
paronomastically
paronomasy
paronychia
paronychial
paronymic
paronymous
paronymously
paronymy
paroquet
parore
parosmia
parotic
parotid
parotid gland

WORDS THAT END LIKE PARONYM

autonym
caconym
cohyponym
eponym
ethnonym
exonym
heteronym
hyponym
meronym
mononym
pseudonym
textonym

Synonyms and antonyms of paronym in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «paronym» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PARONYM

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

Translator English - Chinese

同源词
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

parónimo
570 millions of speakers

English

paronym
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

paronym
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

paronym
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пароним
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

paronym
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সমগোত্রীয় শব্দ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

paronyme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Paronim
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

paronym
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

paronym
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

paronym
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Paronym
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giống âm nhau
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒரே மூலத்தில் இருந்து வந்த மற்றொரு சொல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अभिज्ञापक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

aynı kökten gelen sözcük
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Paronym
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

paronym
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

паронім
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

paronim
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

paronym
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

related woord
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

paronym
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

paronym
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of paronym

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PARONYM»

The term «paronym» is used very little and occupies the 187.854 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PARONYM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «paronym» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «paronym» 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 paronym

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARONYM»

Discover the use of paronym in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to paronym and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Substance and Predication in Aristotle
I will argue that a paronym is not simply the person or thing that is grammatical, brave, and the rest. Nor is it the accident, grammar, bravery, and so on. Instead, as we shall see, paronyms are accidental compounds, which are neither simply ...
Frank A. Lewis, 1991
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Natural Language Processing and Information Systems: 10th ...
In all cases, we should consider paronyms of the same POS – for retaining the syntactic links between words while replacing a word by its paronym. A letter paronym differs from its source word by a few elementary editing operations: insertion ...
Andrés Montoyo, Rafael Munoz, Elisabeth Métais, 2005
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Lexical Semantics
Generally speaking, unless there is good evidence to the contrary, it will be assumed that semantic complexity parallels derivational complexity, and that in a normal case of base and paronym, the base is an endonym of the paronym. This is ...
D. A. Cruse, 1986
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Handbook of Orthography and Literacy
In the first sentence, the semantic difference between the correct Word and its paronym is slight, so that the two words indicate the same action (to put something on, as in the sentence, “The mother put a coat on a child”); although the used ...
R. Malatesha Joshi, P.G. Aaron, 2013
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Colouring Meaning: Collocation and Connotation in Figurative ...
... 79 core collocation see collocation CorIS (Corpus di Italian Scritto) 31 corpus lexicography 35–36, 181 cultural paronym see paronym D discourse function 61, 62 see also semantic prosody discourse prosody 61 see also semantic prosody ...
Gill Philip, 2011
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Portraying Analogy
'Whitened' is a paronym for 'white' (and vice-versa, because that relationship is symmetrical and the morphological differences indicate meaning differences symmetrically, as well), and is equivocal in that 'whitened' means 'turned white'.
James F. Ross, 1981
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Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 1-4
For example, a woman who shares in the art of music (tês mousikês tekhnês metekhousa), and who is called 'musical' (mousikê), although she shares in the name and in the reality, is not called a paronym by derivation from 'music' ( mousikê), ...
Simplicius,, 2014
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ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese
3f shb ifc (sjac) LH sac, OCM *lhakh 'Let go' [Shi], 'let off, liberate' [Zuo], 'pardon' [ Shu] (paronym of she ^ under -> she2 ik^)- The phonetic element implies an OC final *-kh, thus the word is formally different from the homonym she ^ (under ...
Axel Schuessler, 2007
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Quaestio Subtilissima
Hence 'just', 'literate', and 'white' are paronyms. According to the logician Aristotle 'white' (and hence presumably any other paronym) signifies the correlated quality and nothing but that quality (B 194C). Further, in Categoriae 4, Aristotle had ...
Desmond Paul Henry, 1984
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Spanish Loanwords in the English Language: A Tendency ...
There are cases in which the English term and its corresponding Spanish paronym have different meanings, the Spanish term being the more adequate on account of its context to express the unmarked or less typical sense. This is well ...
Félix Rodríguez González, 1996

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PARONYM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term paronym is used in the context of the following news items.
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Submarine Bells at Pete's Candy Store, Brooklyn, NY, 4.19.09
These are songs of love lost, found while in motion, to be Miss Waltz who mistook a dance for feeling, death as a paronym for action, love ... «Sentimentalist Magazine, Apr 09»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Paronym [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/paronym>. May 2024 ».
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