so-called

so-called

English

Etymology

so +‎ called

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sōʹkôld', IPA^(key): /ˈsəʊˌkɔːld/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊˌkɔld/

Adjective

so-called (not comparable)

1. So named; commonly called.

   the so-called Ising model

   • 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 ...

2. (ironic) Commonly called by such a name, but not worthy of it.

   These so-called "assistants" are making our jobs harder, not easier!

   • 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, OCLC 1085228267, 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, […]

Translations

so named

Arabic: مَا يُسَمَّى‎ (mā yusammā) Armenian: այսպես կոչված (ayspes kočʿvac) 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) 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) Romanian: așa-zisul m, așa-zisa f 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) Ukrainian: так зва́ний (tak zványj), т.з. (t.z.)

so named, but wrongly so

Albanian: ashtuquajtur (sq) Armenian: այսպես կոչված (ayspes kočʿvac) 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) 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) 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) Turkish: sözde (tr) Ukrainian: так зва́ний (tak zványj), т.з. (t.z.) Vietnamese: cái gọi là Yiddish: אַזוי גערופֿן‎ (azoy gerufn)

Further reading

• so-called at OneLook Dictionary Search
• So-Called. Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved on 6 June 2016.