antonomasia

Meaning of antonomasia

noun
  1. the substitution of an epithet or title for a proper name (e.g. the Maid of Orleans for Joan of Arc).
  2. the use of a proper name to express a general idea (e.g. a Scrooge for a miser).

mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek, from antonomazein ‘name instead’, from anti- ‘against, instead’ + onoma ‘a name’.

Information about antonomasia

Hyphenation of antonomasia

antono-ma-sia

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • antonomasia is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with antonomasia

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