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Byword
//ˈbaɪ.wɚd//
"Byword" in a Sentence (5 examples)
The name Cleopatra has become a byword for a beautiful woman.
Timbuktu's name has become a byword of remoteness.
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.
He hath made me also a byword of the people […]
"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."
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