Byword [noun]
Definition of Byword:
saying
Synonyms of Byword:
● Handle
● Precept
● Aphorism
● Slogan
● Gnome
● Nickname
● Dictum
● Epithet
● Maxim
● Axiom
● Adage
● Proverb
● Saw
● Motto
Opposite/Antonyms of Byword:
-
Sentence/Example of Byword:
But he marred it all by a temper so ungovernable that in Paris there was current a byword, "Explosive as Garnache."
For years the names of oil king and iron master have been a hissing and a byword among the hot-heads in America.
A prince may be the byword of all Europe, yet he alone know nothing of it.
And besides, when folk talk of a country covered with troops, it's but a kind of a byword at the best.
Had not the justice of the strong become a byword and a loathing?
The name of Tiberius was a byword for impenetrable disguise.
For ages the “roads” of this country were a byword and a reproach to us.
Scotland too, till something better come, must have a Poor-law, if Scotland is not to be a byword among the nations.
The wind howls day and night, and the place is so well known for it that "vent de Furnes" is a byword.
In the course of a year he did this, committing such atrocities as made his name a byword over the whole of South America.