Synonyms:
substitute, replacement
Meaning: a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
substitute, replace, interchange, exchange
Meaning: put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"
Synonyms:
substitute, sub, stand_in, fill_in
Meaning: be a substitute; "The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague"; "The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet"
Usage examples
A SUBSTITUTE.
THE SUBSTITUTE FOR THE SALOON
The press is no substitute for institutions.
"They will substitute music for drugs, that is all.
"Well, suppose you were to alter a signal, and substitute another?"
But as I failed to get him, I believe you would make a splendid substitute.
What a charming substitute for the crabbed old housekeeper who had just left us!
Once they missed it nothing else would do; there was no conceivable substitute for that success.
Nor will the reflective experience be different in kind if we substitute distance in time for separation in space.
In neither case, be it observed, was any attempt made to substitute another and purer religion for the popular one.