id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5299 Synonym - Wikipedia .html text/html 1855 250 65 This article is about the general meaning of "synonym". Different words that are similar in meaning usually differ for a reason: feline is more formal than cat; long and extended are only synonyms in one usage and not in others (for example, a long arm is not the same as an extended arm). The analysis of synonymy, polysemy, hyponymy, and hypernymy is inherent to taxonomy and ontology in the information-science senses of those terms.[6] It has applications in pedagogy and machine learning, because they rely on word-sense disambiguation.[7] Sources of synonyms[edit] In English, similarly, we often have Latin and Greek terms synonymous with Germanic ones: thought, notion (L), idea (Gk); ring, circle (L), cycle (Gk). Many bound morphemes in English are borrowed from Latin and Greek and are synonyms for native words or morphemes: fish, pisci(L), ichthy(Gk). Uses of synonyms[edit] Thesauri and synonym dictionaries – Reference work that lists words grouped by similarity of meaning "Synonym dictionary words and phrases". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5299.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5299.txt