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epithet::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | name |
| Type of | calumniation, calumny, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy, traducement |
| Has types | smear word |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | word picture, word-painting, picture, characterisation, characterization, depiction, delineation |
Examples of epithet
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As a child, he had been called that epithet so often he thought it was his name.
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Lykaion, giving the god the epithet Lykaios and establishing games in his honor.
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Her main epithet was belet rame, lady of love, which was also applied to Ishtar.
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Adrasteia was also an epithet applied to Rhea herself, to Cybele, and to Ananke.
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Its specific epithet is the Latin for insular, referring to its island location.
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In Vedic period the term first appeared as an epithet of Indra, Surya, and Agni.
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Tertullian though does not consider Conseuius an epithet of Janus but a theonym.
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The epithet Carneus applied to Apollo is just a different form of the same word.
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What is relatively certain, however, is that it originated as a negative epithet.
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- Name: a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
- An epithet (from Greek: u1F10u03C0u03AFu03B8u03B5u03C4u03BFu03BD epitheton, neut. of u1F10u03C0u03AFu03B8u03B5u03C4u03BFu03C2 epithetos, "attributed, added") is a sobriquet, or a descriptive term (word or phrase), accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It can be described as a glorified nickname...
- A term used to characterize a person or thing; A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person; An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase; A word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species. ...
- An adjective or phrase used to express the characteristic of a person or thing in poetry (e.g. rosy-fingered dawn).
- The final word in a binary combination and the word following the connecting term denoting rank in other combinations (Art. 6.7, 11.4, 21.1, 23.1, and 24.1).
- A word or phrase that is added to the name of a person or thing describing a characteristic attribute, e.g., swift-footed Achilles.
- One of the words which makes up the binomial of an organism.
- An adjective or adjectival phrase that is used to describe the special quality of a thing or person.
- A descriptive adjective or phrase used to characterize someone or something.
