'Byword' definitions:
Definition of 'byword'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Byword'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'byword'
From: Easton
- By-word Hebrew _millah_ (Job 30:9), a word or speech, and hence object of talk; Hebrew _mashal_ (Ps. 44:14), a proverb or parable. When it denotes a sharp word of derision, as in Deut. 28:37, 1 Kings 9:7, 2 Chr. 7:20, the Hebrew _sheninah_ is used. In Jer. 24:9 it is rendered "taunt."
Synonyms of 'byword'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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