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secretary of defense has 1 distinct synonym spread across 2 of its 2 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
the person who holds the secretaryship of the Defense Department
“the first Defense Secretary was James V. Forrestal who was appointed by Truman”
the position of the head of the Department of Defense
“the position of Defense Secretary was created in 1947”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for secretary of defense come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.