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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈbaɪ.wə(ɹ)d/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈbaɪ.wɚd/

名詞

byword (plural bywords)

1. A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase.
2. A characteristic word or expression; a word or phrase associated with a person or group.
3. Someone or something that stands as an example (i.e. metonymically) for something else, by having some of that something's characteristic traits.
   • 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Christmas Banquet”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:

     Illustrious unfortunates attract a wider sympathy, not because their griefs are more intense, but because, being set on lofty pedestals, they the better serve mankind as instances and bywords of calamity.

4. An object of notoriety or contempt, scorn or derision.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 17:6:

     He hath made me also a byword of the people […]

   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, chapter XII, in The Picture of Dorian Gray:

     "I know you and Harry are inseparable. Surely for that reason, if for none other, you should not have made his sister's name a by-word."

5. A nickname or epithet.

参考

• bispel
• byspel

Further reading

• “byword”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

語源

From 古期英語 bīword, modified from earlier bīwyrde, from Proto-West Germanic *bīwurdī; equivalent to by- +‎ word.

発音

• IPA: /ˈbiːˌwurd/, /ˈbiːˌwoːrd/

名詞

byword

1. byword

派生した語

• English: byword

参照

• “bī-wǒrd, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 February 2020.