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- acronymsplural of acronym: An abbreviation formed by the initial letters of other words.
- pseudonymsplural of pseudonym: A fictitious name (more literally, a false name), as those used by writers and movie stars.
- meronymsplural of meronym: A term used to denote a thing that is a part of something else.
- holonymsplural of holonym: A term that denotes the whole of which another term's referent is a part.
- hypernymsplural of hypernym: A superordinate word or phrase; a term whose referents form a set which includes as a subset the referents of a subordinate term—as, for example, insect (being a hypernym) for ant.
- homonymsplural of homonym: A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both).
- eponymsplural of eponym: A person who gave or supposedly gave their name to a people, place, institution, etc.
- hyponymsplural of hyponym: A more specific term; a subordinate grouping word or phrase; a term designating a subclass of another more general class described by the given word.
- allonymsplural of allonym: A pseudonym, (particularly) another person's name used as a pseudonym by the author of a work.
- andronymsplural of andronym: A man's name or a word derived from a man's name.