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The answer EPITHET has 140 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of epithet in various dictionaries:
noun - a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
noun - descriptive word or phrase
A term used to characterize a person or thing, such as rosy-fingered in rosy-fingered dawn or the Great in Catherine the Great.
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| On the same page as "epitaph" in the dictionary, it can be a characterizing word or an abusive one |
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| an adjective or phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. |
| An adjective or phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned. |
| descriptive word or phrase |
| a defamatory or abusive word or phrase |
| an adjective added to a person's name or a phrase used instead of it, usually to criticize or praise them: |
| a word or phrase used to describe someone, often as an insult: |
| A term used to characterize a person or thing, such as rosy-fingered in rosy-fingered dawn or the Great in Catherine the Great. |
| A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person, such as The Great Emancipator for Abraham Lincoln. |
| An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase. |
| Biology A word in the scientific name of an animal or plant following the name of the genus and denoting a species, variety, or other division of the genus, as sativa in Lactuca sativa. |
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An epithet (from Greek: epitheton, neuter of epithetos, "attributed, added") is a byname, or a descriptive term (word or phrase), accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, divinities, objects, and binomial nomenclature. It can also be a descriptive title: for example, Pallas Athena, Alfred the Great, Suleiman the Magnificent or Wadysaw I the Elbow-high. * In contemporary use, epithet often refers to an abusive, defamatory, or derogatory phrase, such as a racial or animal epithet. This use as a euphemism is criticized by Martin Manser and other proponents of linguistic prescription. |