noun
- words or phrases that have the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or phrase
Usage: plural form of synonym
Examples
- The teacher asked students to find synonyms for the word ‘happy’.
- Big and large are synonyms that can be used interchangeably.
- The thesaurus contains thousands of synonyms for common words.
- Writers use synonyms to avoid repeating the same word too often.
- Fast, quick, and rapid are all synonyms with similar meanings.
- She looked up synonyms to make her essay more interesting.
- The dictionary lists several synonyms after each definition.