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has gloss(noun) a word introduced because an existing term has become inadequate; "Nobody ever heard of analog clocks until digital clocks became common, so `analog clock' is a retronym"
retronym
lexicalizationeng: retronym
subclass of(noun) a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"
word
Meaning
French
lexicalizationfra: rétronyme
Italian
lexicalizationita: retronimo
Castilian
lexicalizationspa: retrónimo

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Word: (case sensitive)
Language: (ISO 639-3 code, e.g. "eng" for English)


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