Usually means: Words related through similar origins.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. paronym: Merriam-Webster
  2. paronym: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. paronym: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. paronym: Collins English Dictionary
  5. paronym: Wordnik
  6. paronym: Wiktionary
  7. paronym: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. paronym: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Paronym, paronym: Dictionary.com
  10. Paronym: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Paronym: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. paronym: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Paronym: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. paronym: FreeDictionary.org
  15. paronym: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. paronym: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PARONYM: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Definitions from Wiktionary (paronym)

noun:  (semantics) A word derived from the same root or stem as another word; classes include cognates and naturalizations of foreign words.
noun:  (rare) A near-homophone, a word that sounds like another word (some example pairs are cognate).

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