is applied to a word or term that has the same import or signification with another.

Several works have been composed for the express purpose of explaining synonymous words. In 1777 a work was published on the Latin synonyma at Paris by M. Gardin Dumeufil. The abbe Girard published one on the synonymous terms of the French language many years ago. Another was published on the same subject in the year 1785 by the abbe Roubaud. An account of the English synonyma was published by an anonymous author in 1766; which is a close imitation, and in some parts a literal translation, of the abbe Girard's Synonymes Francais. Mrs Piozzi has written some essays on the same subject.