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Reference.com is an online encyclopedia, thesaurus, and dictionary.

The site also provides machine translation and web search.

Dictionary.com is an online dictionary whose domain was first registered on May 14, 1995.

The company was founded by Brian Kariger and Daniel Fierro as part of Lexico Publishing, which also started Thesaurus.com and Reference.com.

In lexical semantics, opposites are words lying in an inherently incompatible binary relationship, like the opposite pairs big: small, long: short, and precede: follow.

The notion of incompatibility here refers to the fact that one word in an opposite pair entails that it is not the other pair member.

For example, something that is long entails that it is not short.

It is referred to as a 'binary' relationship because there are two members in a set of opposites.

The relationship between opposites is known as opposition.

A member of a pair of opposites can generally be determined by the question What is the opposite of X ?.

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.

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now the global lingua franca.

Named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to England, it ultimately derives its name from the Anglia (Angeln) peninsula in the Baltic Sea.

It is most closely related to the Frisian languages, although its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages in the early medieval period, and later by Romance languages, particularly French.

English is either the official language or one of the official languages in almost 60 sovereign states.

It is the most commonly spoken language in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand, and is widely spoken in some areas of the Caribbean, Africa, and South Asia.

It is the third most common native language in the world, after Mandarin and Spanish.

It is the most widely learned second language and an official language of the United Nations, of the European Union, and of many other world and regional international organisations.

It is the most widely spoken Germanic language, accounting for at least 70% of speakers of this Indo-European branch.