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SYNONYMIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does synonymist mean?
• SYNONYMIST (noun)
The noun SYNONYMIST has 1 sense:
1. a student of synonyms
Familiarity information: SYNONYMIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A student of synonyms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("synonymist" is a kind of...):
lexicographer; lexicologist (a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language)
Derivation:
synonymy (the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning)
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