Translation of "retronym" into Chinese
返璞詞, 返璞词 are the top translations of "retronym" into Chinese.
A new word or phrase coined for an old object or concept whose original name has become used for something else or is no longer unique (such as acoustic guitar where guitar used to mean this but can now also refer to an electric guitar). [..]
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返璞詞
名詞(*linguistics*, *countable*) a new word or phrase coined for an old object or ... (e.g. acoustic guitar, analog clock, black licorice, dial telephone, dirt road, hardcover books, natural language, natural turf, paper book, rotary telephone, silent film, snail mail, steam locomotive, terrestrial radio, traditional marriage)
In linguistics, a retronym is an intriguing concept, as these terms often arise after technological or cultural changes. (This example sentence was generated by a large language model.)
在語言學中，返璞詞是一個有趣的概念，因為它們通常出現在技術或文化變遷之後。（這個例句是由大型語言模型生成的。）
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返璞词
new word created to differentiate between two words, where previously no clarification was required
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