Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun anaphor

1 sense of anaphor

Sense 1
anaphor -- (a word (such as a pronoun) used to avoid repetition; the referent of an anaphor is determined by its antecedent)
       => word -- (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")