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a specialized phrase or a neologism not usually found in a speaker's spoken vocabulary
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The true name of an individual, as those used by authors and film actors.
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A pseudonym derived by spelling one's name backwards.
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(transitive, poetry) To turn into antistrophe.
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A proper name that aptly describes the occupation or character of the person, especially by coincidence.
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A name that is aptly suited to its owner.
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A name, such as of a plant or animal, that occurs in (especially technical) literature but does not have much currency in the spoken language.
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(anthropology, linguistics) The name by which a person is normally identified in conversation.
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Alternative form of charactonym [(literature) A name that is somehow descriptive of the character who bears it.]
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(literature) A name that is somehow descriptive of the character who bears it.
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A name for an economic good, product name.
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A nickname or epithet by which someone is identified.
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(countable) A colloquial term, utterance, etc.; a colloquialism.
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A name for an inhabitant or native of a specific place, usually derived from the name of the place.
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(linguistics) Someone who records and describes actual rules regarding language usage, or who believes that linguistic norms should be defined by usage rather than theory.
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A critical revision of a text.
adj
Of or pertaining to documents or documentation
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A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
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A real or fictitious person's name that has given rise to the name of a particular item.
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One whose name is used as an eponym; a person after whom something is named.
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in an eponymous manner; as the title character of a book, etc.
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(rare) A name well suited to the person, place or object which bears it.
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The creation or use of self-descriptive names.
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(semiotics) The effect of a sign on someone who reads or comprehends it
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Alternative spelling of loanword. [A word directly taken into one language from another one with little or no translation.]
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Alternative form of low-context culture [A culture in which communication tends to be explicit, with little reliance on context or shared understandings to convey meaning.]
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Alternative spelling of metaknowledge. [(philosophy) Knowledge about knowledge itself (for example, epistemologic awareness).]
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(philosophy, linguistics, education) Discussion, especially involving academic analysis, about a discussion or about discourse.
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A personal name or nickname; an informal label, often drawing attention to a particular attribute.
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A single name by which a person, thing, etc., is known.
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(originally) One who is named after another or for whom another is named.
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The art of name-dropping or giving the names of people who are involved with a project, in order to confer status or legitimacy.
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Someone who neologises; a coiner of new words.
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One who coins a new word or new words
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Someone who neologizes; a coiner of new words.
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coinage, esp. with connotation as a means to control a monetary system (rare).
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(lexicography) A word invented for the occasion.
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An identifying name given to a street; a street name.
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(linguistics) Communication that takes place primarily for social purposes rather than for the exchange of vital information, such as small talk and social pleasantries.
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A collection of phrases; a phrasebook.
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(linguistics) A term that is seemingly an acronym or other abbreviation, but does not stand for anything.
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Being, pertaining to, or as an pseudonym.
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Of or pertaining to a pseudonym.
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A new concept arising from, or named from, a pun on existing terms.
adj
Eponymously named; having the same name as the author or artist.
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The use of a word autonymously, or as a name for itself
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(rare) A term formed from the terminal letter or letters of several words.
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A field of scholarly enquiry dedicated to reconstructing the oldest form(s) of a text that is or are possible to retrieve and to explaining any attested variants.
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The art of putting something into words, especially when done cleverly.
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A fabricated word coined to identify a new concept.
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