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byword 音标拼音: [b'ɑɪw ,ɚd] n. 谚语,格言,笑柄 谚语,格言,笑柄 byword n 1: a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people [ synonym: { proverb}, { adage}, { saw}, { byword}] Byword \ By" word`\, n. [ AS. b[" i] word; b[" i], E. by word.] 1. A common saying; a proverb; a saying that has a general currency. [ 1913 Webster] I knew a wise man that had it for a byword. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 2. The object of a contemptuous saying. [ 1913 Webster] Thou makest us a byword among the heathen. -- Ps. xliv. 14 [ 1913 Webster] 116 Moby Thesaurus words for " byword": adage, ana, analects, aphorism, apophthegm, apothegm, appellation, appellative, axiom, binomen, binomial name, burning shame, butt, byname, byword of reproach, catch phrase, catchword, cliche, cognomen, collected sayings, cry, cryptonym, current saying, denomination, derision, designation, dictate, dictum, dirty shame, disgrace, distich, dupe, empty title, epigram, epithet, eponym, euonym, expression, fad word, fair game, figure of fun, fool, game, gazingstock, gnome, goat, golden saying, handle, honorific, humiliation, hyponym, jest, jestingstock, joke, label, laughingstock, low- down dirty shame, maxim, mockery, moniker, monkey, moral, mot, motto, name, namesake, nomen, nomen nudum, oracle, parable, pet expression, phrase, pithy saying, precept, prescript, proper name, proper noun, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, reproach, saw, saying, scandal, scientific name, secret name, sentence, sententious expression, shame, shibboleth, slogan, sloka, sobriquet, stock, stock saying, style, sutra, tag, target, tautonym, teaching, text, title, toy, trinomen, trinomial name, verse, victim, vogue word, watchword, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, word, words of wisdom
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