From so + called.
so-called (not comparable)
- so named; commonly called.
the so-called Ising mode
1988, Ingrid Coetzee, Gerhard-Mark Van der Waal, Conservation of Culture: Changing Context and Challenges:Another Canadian example is that of the so-called Halfback Program initiated in the province of Ontario. With this scheme state lottery tickets with which no prizes are won retain 50% of the value of their initial cost […]
2010, Matty McEire, Looking for Sheville, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 78:... I hadn't met any straight women at the gay bars — a few so called "fag hags" fraternizing with the boys, of course, but ...
- (ironic) commonly called by such a name, but false or unfitting.
These so-called "assistants" are making our jobs harder, not easier!
1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, →OCLC, page 5:[…] dawdling away the hours in the Park as if all the world and its millions of honest hard workers were created solely for the casual diversion of the so-called 'upper' classes, […]
so named
- Arabic: مَا يُسَمَّى (mā yusammā)
- Armenian: այսպես կոչված (ayspes kočʻvac)
- Azerbaijani: adlanan
- Belarusian: так зва́ны (tak zvány), т.з. (t.z.)
- Bulgarian: така́ наре́чен (taká naréčen)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 所謂/所谓 (zh) (suǒwèi)
- Czech: takzvaný (cs)
- Danish: såkaldt
- Dutch: zogenaamd (nl), zgn. (nl), zogeheten (nl), zogenoemd (nl)
- Finnish: niin sanottu (fi), niin kutsuttu (fi)
- French: dénommé (fr)
- German: sogenannt (de)
- Greek: αποκαλούμενος (apokaloúmenos), λεγόμενος (el) (legómenos)
- Hebrew: נקרא כך (nikrá kakh), שנקרא כך (shenikrá kakh), כך נקרא (kakh nikrá)
- Hungarian: úgynevezett (hu)
- Italian: cosiddetto (it)
- Japanese: 所謂 (ja) (いわゆる, iwayuru)
- Korean: 소위(所謂) (ko) (sowi), 이른바 (ko) (ireunba)
- Latin: nuncupativus
- Macedonian: таканаречен (takanarečen)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: såkalt
- Polish: tak zwany (pl), tzw. (pl)
- Portuguese: dito (pt) m, chamado (pt) m
- Romanian: așa-numit, așa-zis
- Russian: так называ́емый (ru) (tak nazyvájemyj), т.н. (t.n.)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: тако̀зва̄нӣ
- Roman: takòzvānī (sh)
- Slovak: takzvaný
- Slovene: tako imenovan
- Swedish: så kallad (sv)
- Tibetan: ཟེར་བའི (zer ba'i), གྲག་པའི (grag pa'i) (colloquial), ཅེས་ཟེར་བ (ces zer ba), ཅེས་བྱ་བ (ces bya ba), ཞེས་བྱ་བ (zhes bya ba), ཅེས་བྱ་ཞིང (ces bya zhing), ཅེས་བྱ་སྟེ (ces bya ste) (literary)
- Ukrainian: так зва́ний (tak zványj), т.з. (t.z.)
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so named, but wrongly so
- Albanian: ashtuquajtur (sq)
- Armenian: այսպես կոչված (ayspes kočʻvac)
- Azerbaijani: dırnaqarası
- Belarusian: так зва́ны (tak zvány), т.з. (t.z.)
- Bulgarian: така́ наре́чен (taká naréčen)
- Catalan: anomenat (ca), dit (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 所謂嘅/所谓嘅 (so2 wai6 ge3)
- Mandarin: 所謂/所谓 (zh) (suǒwèi)
- Czech: takzvaný (cs)
- Danish: såkaldt
- Dutch: zogenaamd (nl), zgn. (nl)
- Estonian: nõndanimetatud
- Finnish: muka (fi), niin sanottu (fi), niin kutsuttu (fi)
- French: soi-disant (fr), prétendu (fr)
- German: sogenannt (de), sog. (de)
- Greek: αποκαλούμενος (apokaloúmenos), λεγόμενος (el) (legómenos), δήθεν (el) (díthen)
- Ancient: λεγόμενος (legómenos), οὕτω καλούμενος (hoútō kaloúmenos), οὕτω ὀνομαζόμενος (hoútō onomazómenos)
- Hebrew: כביכול (he) (kiv’yakhól, k’vayaklhól) used as a conjunctive adverb, not an adjective
- Hindi: कहने को (kahne ko), बोलने को (bolne ko)
- Hungarian: úgynevezett (hu)
- Italian: cosiddetto (it)
- Japanese: 所謂 (ja) (いわゆる, iwayuru)
- Korean: 소위(所謂) (ko) (sowi), 이른바 (ko) (ireunba)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: såkalt
- Persian: کذایی (fa) (kazâyi)
- Polish: tak zwany (pl), tzw. (pl)
- Portuguese: assim chamado, chamado (pt), dito (pt), suposto (pt)
- Romanian: așa-zis
- Russian: так называ́емый (ru) (tak nazyvájemyj), т.н. (t.n.)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: тако̀зва̄нӣ
- Roman: takòzvānī (sh)
- Sindhi: نام نهاد
- Slovene: tako imenovan
- Spanish: llamado (es)
- Swedish: så kallad (sv)
- Tibetan: ཟེར་བའི (zer ba'i), གྲག་པའི (grag pa'i) (colloquial), ཅེས་ཟེར་བ (ces zer ba), ཅེས་བྱ་བ (ces bya ba), ཞེས་བྱ་བ (zhes bya ba), ཅེས་བྱ་ཞིང (ces bya zhing), ཅེས་བྱ་སྟེ (ces bya ste) (literary)
- Turkish: sözde (tr)
- Ukrainian: так зва́ний (tak zványj), т.з. (t.z.)
- Vietnamese: cái gọi là
- Yiddish: אַזוי גערופֿן (azoy gerufn)
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- “so-called”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- So-Called. Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved on 6 June 2016.