Usually means: Commonly cited example; proverbial reputation.
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  1. byword: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. byword: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. byword: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. byword: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. byword: Wordnik
  7. byword: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. byword: Wiktionary
  9. byword: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. byword: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. byword: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Byword, byword: Dictionary.com
  13. byword: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. byword: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Byword (saying), Byword: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Byword: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. byword: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. byword: Rhymezone
  19. Byword: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. byword: Free Dictionary
  21. byword: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. byword: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. byword: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A proverb or proverbial expression, common saying; a frequently used word or phrase.
noun:  A characteristic word or expression; a word or phrase associated with a person or group.
noun:  Someone or something that stands as an example (i.e. metonymically) for something else, by having some of that something's characteristic traits.
noun:  An object of notoriety or contempt, scorn or derision.
noun:  A nickname or epithet.

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