Byword vs Byname - What's the difference?
byword | byname |
A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase.
A characteristic word or expression; a word or phrase associated with a person or group.
Someone or something that stands (metonymically) for something else, by having some of that something's characteristic traits.
An object of notoriety or contempt, scorn or derision.
* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , chapter XII:
A nickname or epithet.
(archaic, historical) A secondary name for a person or thing; a person's surname.
(archaic, historical) A nickname.
A pseudonym; nom-de-plume.
(paganism) A ritual title for a god or goddess used in Heathenry.
(archaic) To assign a byname to.
As nouns the difference between byword and byname
is that byword is a proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase while byname is (archaic|historical) a secondary name for a person or thing; a person's surname.As a verb byname is
(archaic) to assign a byname to.byword
English
Noun
(en noun)- "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 ."