WORD: EPITHET
MEANING:
1. a. A term used to characterize a person or thing, such as rosy-fingered in rosy-fingered dawn or the Great in Catherine the Great. b. A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person, such as The Great Emancipator for Abraham Lincoln. 2. A disparaging or abusive word or phrase. 3. Biology A word in the scientific name of an organism following the name of the genus and denoting a species, subspecies, variety, or cultivar, as sativa in Lactuca sativa.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
PRONOUNCE:
LINK: EPITHET
MEANING:
1. a. A term used to characterize a person or thing, such as rosy-fingered in rosy-fingered dawn or the Great in Catherine the Great. b. A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person, such as The Great Emancipator for Abraham Lincoln. 2. A disparaging or abusive word or phrase. 3. Biology A word in the scientific name of an organism following the name of the genus and denoting a species, subspecies, variety, or cultivar, as sativa in Lactuca sativa.
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
| 1. With Combative Style and Epithets, Trump Takes America First to the UN |
PRONOUNCE:
| ep·i·thet - एपथेट |
LINK: EPITHET
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