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Meanings

Linguistics term for a word with the same or nearly the same meaning as another word. Often contrasted with アントニム (antonym).

〈言こと葉ば〉のシノニムa synonym of a word
「大おおきい」は「巨きょ大だい」のシノニムだ。
'Big' is a synonym of 'huge'.
〈言こと葉ば〉と〈言こと葉ば〉はシノニムだword A and word B are synonyms of each other
「早はやい」と「速はやい」はシノニムだ。
'早い' and '速い' are synonyms.
シノニムとして使つかわれるto be used as a synonym
この語ごは文ぶん学がく作さく品ひんでは「悲かなしみ」のシノニムとして使つかわれる。
This word is used as a synonym for 'sadness' in literary works.

同どう義ぎ語ご sense 1
同義語 is the native Japanese term for a word with the same meaning, used in everyday contexts, while シノニム is the loanword favored in specialized linguistic or scientific writing.
異い名みょう sense 2
異名 is the traditional Japanese term for a taxonomic synonym (an alternate scientific name for the same organism), while シノニム is the borrowed technical term used in modern biology.
類るい義ぎ語ご sense 1
類義語 refers to words that are merely similar in meaning, whereas シノニム (like 同義語) implies an essentially identical meaning.

アントニム sense 1
アントニム means 'antonym', the direct linguistic opposite of シノニム 'synonym'.

Loanword from English 'synonym', ultimately from Greek 'synōnymon'.