Epithet – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
מילים נרדפות: obloquy,
defamation,
traducement,
calumniation,
calumny,
hatchet job,
characterization,
delineation,
picture,
depiction,
word-painting,
word picture,
characterisation
epithet
n.
name, nickname, title, designation; abusive word, disparaging phrase; part of a taxonomic name that identifies a subordinate unit inside a genus
Epithet
An
epithet (from
epitheton, neut. of
epithetos, "attributed, added") is a
byname, or a descriptive term (word or phrase), accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It can be described as a glorified nickname. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, divinities, objects, and
binomial nomenclature. It can also be a descriptive title: for example,
Alexis I the Quiet or
Suleiman the Magnificent.
epithet
Noun
1. a defamatory or abusive word or phrase; "sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me"
(synonym) name
(hypernym) defamation, calumny, obloquy, traducement, hatchet job
(hyponym) smear word
2. descriptive word or phrase
(hypernym) word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, picture, characterization, characterisation
epithet
n.
přívlastek; urážka
Epithet
(v. t.)
To describe by an epithet.
(n.)
Term; expression; phrase.
(n.)
An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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