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1. Explain synonymy using a minimum of two sources
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1. Explain synonymy using a minimum of two sources The word 'synonym' is formed from the Greek words 'same' and 'name'. In basic terms, when two or more phonologically different expressions have the same meaning as each other they are said to be synonymous (if they are phonetically identical then they are polysemous). An expression can be just one word/ lexeme or it can be a few, just as long as the meanings between the two expressions are the same then they are synonyms. As a basic definition this is fine but if you take it literally then there are problems with two expressions having the same meaning. When they have exactly the same meanings they are called absolute, or perfect, synonyms; when they have similar meanings they are called near, or weak, synonyms and when some but not all of their meanings are the same then they are called partial...
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