SYNONYMIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (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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