AUTONYM

Etymology

Noun

autonym (plural autonyms)

(taxonomy) An infraspecific name in which the specific epithet is repeated.

Synonym: type variety

(linguistics, anthropology) A name used by a group or category of people to refer to themselves or their language, as opposed to a name given to them by other groups.

Synonyms: endonym, selfname

Antonyms: exonym, xenonym

The true name of a person or other entity, especially an author.

Antonyms: pseudonym, alias, pen name

A work published under the author's true name.

Source: Wiktionary



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27 April 2024

GREAT

(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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