polynym
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A name (or term) consisting of multiple words.
noun
One of multiple names for the same thing.
Example Sentences
- "They agree upon one point, viz., the advantages, other things being equal, of mononyms (single word terms) over polynyms (terms consisting of two or more words)."
- "Dyaus, the Bright- Shining-One-in-the-Heavens, or Maruna, the All-Surrounding, All- Enduring-One ; or Agni, the Everywhere-Present-One, became the polynyms for God."
- "The way to avoid term disputes is not to impose mononymy but, rather, to insist that the syn-tags for a given polynym (multinym) be clearly identified."
- "For once the former are known, the remaining two will be known too, since they are their opposites, and opposites are known by the same knowledge. In knowing what is a homonym, one will also know its opposite, I mean a polynym."
- "Thus, Afham's second role as a Kierkegaardian polynym is to render his reader visible."
- "A few dictionaries have treated all the meanings sub-meanings of a polynym under one entry."