Byword vs Parable - What's the difference?
byword | parable |
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.
A short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy
To represent by parable.
(obsolete) That can easily be prepared or procured; obtainable.
*, vol.1, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.306:
As nouns the difference between byword and parable
is that byword is a proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase while parable is a short narrative illustrating a lesson (usually religious/moral) by comparison or analogy.As a verb parable is
to represent by parable.As an adjective parable is
that can easily be prepared or procured; obtainable.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 ."
parable
English
(wikipedia parable)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (=modern) .Noun
(en noun)- ''In the New Testament the parables told by Jesus convey His message, as in "The parable of the prodigal son"
- ''Catholic sermons normally draw on at least one Biblical lecture, often parables .
See also
* fable * allegory * pericope * simileVerb
(parabl)- Which by the ancient sages was thus parabled . — Milton.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- The most parable and easy, and about which many are employed, is to teach a school, turn lecturer or curate [...].
- (Sir Thomas Browne)