Retronym

/ɹəˈtɹəʊ.nɪm/

Synonyms for "retronym" (12 found)

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Closest matches (3)

Noun(3 words)
disambiguating labeldistinguishing termearlier label

Strong matches (3)

Noun(3 words)
linguistic revisionnaming reformolder designation

Related words (6)

Noun(6 words)
older nameoriginal termprior designationprior labelsemantic rebrandingterminological adjustment

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

7 entries
designationlinguistic changelinguistic termnaming processtermterminology developmentword

More specific

2 entries
acoustic retronymanalog retronym

Collocations

6 entries
acoustic retronymanalog retronymlinguistic retronymretronym exampleretronym formationretronym usage

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

3 entries

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The phrase is a retronym, the term Frank Mankiewicz has coined to describe names of familiar objects or events that need a modifier to catch up to more modern objects: day baseball and natural turf are in the same category as analog watch.

Source: wiktionary

You can get a good sense of the pace of change over the past century just by looking at the retronyms we've accumulated. New technologies have forced us to come up with terms like steam locomotive, silent movie […]

Source: wiktionary

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