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UK
/bˈaɪwɜːd/
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[ US /ˈbaɪˌwɝd/ ]
[ US /ˈbaɪˌwɝd/ ]
NOUN
- a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
How To Use byword In A Sentence
- Bihar is a sun-bleached state of 90 million people in the east of India, and it has for decades been a byword for hopelessness. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
- In the short-term, the results of the town's decline were in keeping with that time-honoured symbiosis between shrinking prospects and the politics of hate: Hoyerswerda remains a byword for a deeply ugly episode in 1991 when local neo-nazis besieged a hostel for refugees, cheered on by hundreds of locals. Quiet epitaph to industry: a typical East German town
- The former home secretary inherited a department that was a byword for inefficiency and incompetence, and ordered a large scale clear-out of the dead wood.
- Back in the early 1970s, it was a kind of byword for industrial-relations strife, poor quality, unreliability. NPR Topics: News
- The firm is a byword for excellence.
- Bethlem became a byword for thieving, degeneracy and institutionalised corruption. Bedlam
- Coffee at Melanie's was a byword in Kinvarra for putting your feet up after a hard morning. JUST BETWEEN US
- Community work has become a byword for slap-happy mismanagement of people's sentences.
- The American Revolutionary's 1748 remark stands as a byword for industrial capitalism's hurry-up ethic.
- He, to hear my mother's name made a byword and reproach, myself alluded to as the indigent daughter of an outcast, -- he, who seemed already lifted as high above me on the eagle wings of fortune, as the eyry of the king-bird is above the nest of the swallow, -- it was more than I could bear. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author