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Meaning Relations Synonymy Antonymy Hyponymy Polysemy Homonymy Synonymy derived from Greek synomymon, of like meaning or like name Synonyms are traditionally defined as words differing in sound form but identical or similar in meaning. Synonymy The Third Webster defines it as “ a word having the same meaning as another word: as one of two or more words of the same language and grammatical category having the same essential or generic meaning and differing only in connotation, application, or idiomatic use: one of two or more words having essentially identical definitions….”. Synonyms Comple