English Synonyms and Antonyms

Salary is for literary or professional work, wages for handicraft or other comparatively inferior service; a
salary is regarded as more permanent than wages; an editor receives a salary, a compositor receives wages.
Stipend has become exclusively a literary word. A fee is given for a single service or privilege, and is
sometimes in the nature of a gratuity. Compare REQUITE.
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PEOPLE.
Synonyms and Antonyms, by James Champlin Fernald
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Synonyms:
commonwealth, nation, race, state, tribe. community, population,
A community is in general terms the aggregate of persons inhabiting any territory in common and viewed as
having common interests; a commonwealth is such a body of persons having a common government,
especially a republican government; as, the commonwealth of Massachusetts. A community may be very
small; a commonwealth is ordinarily of considerable extent. A people is the aggregate of any public
community, either in distinction from their rulers or as including them; a race is a division of mankind in the
line of origin and ancestry; the people of the United States includes members of almost every race. The use of
people as signifying persons collectively, as in the statement "The hall was full of people," has been severely
criticized, but is old and accepted English, and may fitly be classed as idiomatic, and often better than
persons, by reason of its collectivism. As Dean Alford suggests, it would make a strange transformation of the
old hymn "All people that on earth do dwell" to sing "All persons that on earth do dwell." A state is an
organized political community considered in its corporate capacity as "a body politic and corporate;" as, a
legislative act is the act of the state; every citizen is entitled to the protection of the state. A nation is an
organized political community considered with reference to the persons composing it as having certain definite
boundaries, a definite number of citizens, etc. The members of a people are referred to as persons or
individuals; the individual members of a state or nation are called citizens or subjects. The population of a
country is simply the aggregate of persons residing within its borders, without reference to race, organization,
or allegiance; unnaturalized residents form part of the population, but not of the nation, possessing none of the
rights and being subject to none of the duties of citizens. In American usage State signifies one commonwealth
of the federal union known as the United States. Tribe is now almost wholly applied to rude peoples with very
imperfect political organization; as, the Indian tribes; nomadic tribes. Compare MOB.
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PERCEIVE.
Synonyms:
apprehend, comprehend, conceive, understand.
We perceive what is presented through the senses. We apprehend what is presented to the mind, whether
through the senses or by any other means. Yet perceive is used in the figurative sense of seeing through to a
conclusion, in a way for which usage would not allow us to substitute apprehend; as, "Sir, I perceive that thou
art a prophet," John iv, 19. That which we apprehend we catch, as with the hand; that which we conceive we
are able to analyze and recompose in our mind; that which we comprehend, we, as it were, grasp around, take
together, seize, embrace wholly within the mind. Many things may be apprehended which can not be
comprehended; a child can apprehend the distinction between right and wrong, yet the philosopher can not