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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 synonymsplay

  Familiarity information: SYNONYMIST used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SYNONYMIST (noun)


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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