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Definition of 'byword'English
Noun
( en-noun)
A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase.
A characteristic word or expression; a word or phrase associated with a person or group.
Someone or something that stands (metonymically) for something else, by having some of that something's characteristic traits.
An object of notoriety or contempt, scorn or derision.
* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , chapter XII:
- "I know you and Harry are inseparable. Surely for that reason, if for none other, you should not have made his sister's name a by-word ."
A nickname or epithet.
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