{ "byword":{ "antonyms":[], "definitions":{ ": a frequently used word or phrase":[], ": a proverbial saying : proverb":[], ": epithet":[], ": one that is noteworthy or notorious":[], ": one that personifies a type":[] }, "examples":[ "Mom's favorite byword is \u201cYou can get more flies with honey than with vinegar\u201d.", "nationally, Beverly Hills' Rodeo Drive has become a byword for luxury retailing", "Recent Examples on the Web", "Their names were a byword for the very idea of Entertainment writ large. \u2014 Christina Catherine Martinez, Los Angeles Times , 8 June 2022", "Over the past decade, Edirisa\u2019s hiking and dugout canoeing tours, run not-for-profit and providing employment opportunities for dozens of local people, have become a byword for culturally sensitive travel that goes beyond the guidebooks. \u2014 Outside Online , 18 May 2015", "For now, a sorrowful procession arrives daily at the morgue in Bucha, a town whose name has become a byword for hideous suffering coming to light weeks after the fact. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 20 Apr. 2022", "Now Bucha is a byword for war crimes, like Srebrenica or My Lai. \u2014 Time , 14 Apr. 2022", "In Nicaragua, President Daniel Ortega\u2019s Sandinista government has become a byword for overt power grabs and human rights abuses. \u2014 Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor , 29 Mar. 2022", "The graying West looks fearfully to Japan \u2014 itself a byword for overpopulation in the early 20th century \u2014 where crashing fertility threatens government finances, the economy, and the social order at large. \u2014 Kevin D. Williamson, National Review , 17 Mar. 2022", "These speakers are an exceptional creation that reignites the design, heritage and engineering brilliance that made B&O a byword for audio and design excellence back in the 1970s. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 25 Jan. 2022", "Then, Los Angeles was a byword for racial unrest, still reeling from the uprising over the acquittal of four officers for beating Mr. King. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Feb. 2022" ], "first_known_use":{ "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "history_and_etymology":{}, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8b\u012b-\u02ccw\u0259rd" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "adage", "aphorism", "apothegm", "epigram", "maxim", "proverb", "saw", "saying", "sententia", "word" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075018", "type":[ "noun" ] }, "bywalk":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a secluded or private walk : byway":[] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-042220" }, "byway":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a little traveled side road":[], ": a secondary or little known aspect or field":[ "meandering more and more in the fascinating byways of learning", "\u2014 The Times Literary Supplement (London)" ] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8b\u012b-\u02ccw\u0101" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[ "I prefer to take byways to town.", "He's traveled the highways and byways of this country.", "the byways of the art world", "The book chronicles some of the interesting byways of legal history.", "Recent Examples on the Web", "The historic scenic byway of U.S. Route 201, called the Old Canada Road, covers 78 miles from Fairfield to the Canadian border. \u2014 Megan Michelson, Outside Online , 18 June 2020", "Once an ancient aboriginal trail, the path became a well-trodden byway for the workmen who built the Gilded Age mansions. \u2014 Amy Gamerman, WSJ , 24 May 2022", "This lakeside city serves as the gateway to the Creole Nature Trail, a lengthy scenic byway that spans more than 180 miles across southwestern Louisiana. \u2014 Jared Ranahan, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022", "The Natchez Trace Parkway is a scenic byway that runs through Tennessee and Alabama before cutting into Mississippi. \u2014 Outside Online , 7 Mar. 2022", "Minnesota\u2019s devotion to Bunyan \u2014 which includes claims to his birthplace being in Bemidji, multiple statues and even a scenic byway \u2014 could be related to when Bunyan stories made their way into print and popular culture. \u2014 Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 8 Feb. 2022", "There were suggestions to select another street, a byway that cut through the whole city (Western Avenue", "Along the way, the book takes another byway into Arthurian legend, the better to explore Gage\u2019s weakening grip on the line between myth and reality. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 19 Jan. 2022", "Scenic byway corridors that preserve the scenic vistas viewable from major highways. \u2014 Megan Becka, cleveland , 13 Jan. 2022" ], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{ "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"" }, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-044122" }, "bywork":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": work done on the side : work done in intervals of leisure":[ "won popular fame \u2026 by a piece of bywork", "\u2014 Times Literary Supplement" ] }, "pronounciation":[], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{}, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-174517" }, "bywoner":{ "type":[ "noun" ], "definitions":{ ": a laborer or farmer working another person's land:":[], ": squatter":[], ": sharecropper":[] }, "pronounciation":[ "\u02c8b\u012b\u02ccv\u014dn\u0259(r)", "\u02c8b\u0101\u02ccv-" ], "synonyms":[], "antonyms":[], "synonym_discussion":"", "examples":[], "history_and_etymology":{ "Afrikaans, from by with, at (from Middle Dutch b\u012b ) + woner dweller (from woon to dwell\u2014from Middle Dutch w\u014dnen \u2014+ -er ); akin to Old High German b\u012b with, at, and to Old High German won\u0113n to dwell":"" }, "first_known_use":{}, "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-203024" } }