Definition of Bywords. Meaning of Bywords. Synonyms of Bywords

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Definition of Bywords

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. I knew a wise man that had it for a byword. --Bacon. 2. The object of a contemptuous saying. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen. --Ps. xliv. 14

Meaning of Bywords from wikipedia

- up byword in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Byword may refer to: Byword (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse and sire from the United Kingdom Byword (saying)...
- Byword (foaled 13 February 2006) is a British-bred, French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. Unraced as a two-year-old, he showed promising form...
- A proverb (from Latin: proverbium) is a simple, traditional saying that expresses a perceived truth based on common sense or experience. Proverbs are often...
- "Interview with Grady Nutt Archived 2010-09-07 at the Wayback Machine. Bywords (Episode 196). Kentucky Educational Television. 1981 (original air-date...
- parliamentary seat in the 1964 general election. The town had become a byword for racial division after the successful candidate, Peter Griffiths, was...
- dear to me, especially as he will be called by that dear name which is a byword for all that is great and good." Consequently, he was baptised "Albert Frederick...
- would be beneath contempt if it weren't also true, in the sense that all bywords for bigots are intended to be defamatory." Transgender rights activist...
- mistresses. As a result, his Italianized Valencian surname, Borgia, became a byword for libertinism and nepotism, which are traditionally considered as characterizing...
- A dodo, the bird that became a byword in the English language for the extinction of a species...
- exoticism, while the terms "Byzantine" and "Byzantinism" have been used as bywords for decadence, complex bureaucracy, and repression. Both Eastern and Western...