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Definitions
a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
Word origin
From Middle English byword, byworde (“proverb”), from Old English bīword, bīwyrd, bīwyrde (“proverb, household word", also "adverb”), from Proto-West Germanic *bīwurdī, equivalent to by- + word. Compare Latin proverbium, which byword may possibly be a translation of. Cognate with Old High German pīwurti (“proverb”). Compare also Old English bīspel (“proverb, example”), bīcwide (“byword, proverb, tale, fable”), Dutch bijwoord (“adverb”).
Used in a sentence
“Illustrious unfortunates attract a wider sympathy, not because their griefs are more intense, but because, being set on lofty pedestals, they the better serve mankind as instances and bywords of calamity.”
“He hath made me also a byword of the people […]”
“"I know you and Harry are inseparable. Surely for that reason, if for none other, you should not have made his sister's name a by-word."”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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