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A synonym is a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language.

Words that are synonyms are said to be synonymous, and the state of being a synonym is called synonymy.

The word comes from Ancient Greek sýn ("with") and ónoma ("name").

An example of synonyms are the words begin, start, commence, and initiate.

Words can be synonymous when meant in certain senses, even if they are not synonymous in all of their senses.

For example, if one talks about a long time or an extended time, long and extended are synonymous within that context.

Synonyms with exact meaning share a seme or denotational sememe, whereas those with inexactly similar meanings share a broader denotational or connotational sememe and thus overlap within a semantic field.

Some academics call the former type cognitive synonyms to distinguish them from the latter type, which they call near-synonyms.

In non-functional linguistics, a sentence is a textual unit consisting of one or more words that are grammatically linked.

In functional linguistics, a sentence is a unit of written texts delimited by graphological features such as upper case letters and markers such as periods, question marks, and exclamation marks.

This notion opposes that of the curve, which is delimited by phonologic features such as pitch and loudness and markers such as pauses.

This notion also opposes a clause, which is a sequence of words that represents some process going on throughout time.

This entry is mainly about sentence in its non-functional sense, though much work in functional linguistics is indirectly cited or considered such as the categories of Speech Act Theory.

In linguistics, a word is the smallest element that can be uttered in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content (with literal or practical meaning).

This contrasts deeply with a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of meaning but will not necessarily stand on its own.

A word may consist of a single morpheme (for example: oh!, rock, red, quick, run, expect), or several (rocks, redness, quickly, running, unexpected), whereas a morpheme may not be able to stand on its own as a word (in the words just mentioned, these are -s, -ness, -ly, -ing, un-, -ed).

A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, translation, etc.

or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, sometimes known as a lexicon.

It is a lexicographical product which shows inter-relationships among the data.

A definition is a statement of the meaning of a term (a word, phrase, or other set of symbols).

Definitions can be classified into two large categories, intensional definitions (which try to give the essence of a term) and extensional definitions (which proceed by listing the objects that a term describes).

Another important category of definitions is the class of ostensive definitions, which convey the meaning of a term by pointing out examples.

A term may have many different senses and multiple meanings, and thus require multiple definitions.