7 sentences with 'synonymous'
Example sentences and phrases with the word synonymous and other words derived from it.
• « One distinct possibility is that the "bandits" (often synonymous with "barbarians" in ancient accounts) who were blamed for destabilising the region may have been a combination of foreign invaders and peasants displaced by drought and social chaos who joined the invasions out of desperation. »
• « Just as the Classical Age is almost synonymous with 'ancient Greece' itself, 'ancient Greece' in the Classical Age is often confused with what happened in Athens specifically. »
• « The Sophists focused on training elite Greeks to succeed - the Greek term for "virtue" was synonymous with "success". »
• « This system was called the Principate, ruled by the "First". Likewise, although "Caesar" had originally been simply the surname of Julius Caesar's line, "Caesar" became synonymous with the emperor himself by the end of the 1st century AD. »
• « Arab invasions quickly destroyed Byzantine power in the Near East and North Africa, and although fragments of Justinian's reconquest remained in Byzantine hands until the 8th century, "Byzantium" was basically synonymous with the contiguous territory of the Balkans, Greece and most of Anatolia by then. »
• « Spinoza took the ideas of the time and applied them wholeheartedly to religion itself, arguing that the universe of natural and physical laws was synonymous with God, and that the very idea of a human-like God with a personality and intentions was superstitious, unprovable and absurd. »