Denotation synonyms

dē'nō-tā'shən

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explicit meaning
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referent (related)
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signifying
(Slang) Verbal play, esp. as engaged in by urban African-Americans, involving boastful taunts, witty insults, indirect threats, etc.
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description
(Biology) A scientific documentation of a specimen intended to reveal a new species by technically explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other species.
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definition (related)
The act or process of stating a precise meaning or significance; formulation of a meaning:
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acceptation
1769, Oxford Standard text, King James Bible: 1 Timothy, i, 15,
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message
The definition of a message is a short communication sent from one person to another or the central theme or idea of a communication.
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meaning
A sense of importance or purpose:
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reference
Reference means someone or something which is a source of information about a subject.
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extension
(Computers) A set of characters that follow a filename and are separated from it by a period, used to identify the kind of file:
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denotative (related)
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disjunctive (related)
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signification (related)
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signifieds (related)
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deictic (related)
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quantifier (related)
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connotative (related)
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predicative (related)
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lexeme (related)
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truth-conditions (related)
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implication
The definition of implication is something that is inferred.
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explanation
Something that explains:
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sign
A posted notice bearing a designation, direction, or command:
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symbol
A printed or written sign used to represent an operation, element, quantity, quality, or relation, as in mathematics or music.
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connotation (related)
Something connoted; idea or notion suggested by or associated with a word, phrase, etc. in addition to its explicit meaning, or denotation
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import
Meaning; signification:
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intent
(Law) The state of mind necessary for an act to constitute a crime.
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sense
A meaning that is conveyed, as in speech or writing; signification:
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value
Value is the worth in goods, services or money of an object or person.
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significance
A meaning that is expressed or implied:
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Denotation Sentence Examples

  • She studied the denotation of the sentence as a whole.

  • The denotation of a word translates the word to its literal meaning.

  • The word "dentist" has the denotation "man or woman who fixes teeth."

  • None of them, in point of fact, has held its ground, and even his proposal to denote unknown quantities by the vowels A, E, I, 0, u, Y - the consonants B, c, &c., being reserved for general known quantities - has not been taken up. In this denotation he followed, perhaps, some older contemporaries, as Ramus, who designated the points in geometrical figures by vowels, making use of consonants, R, S, T, &c., only when these were exhausted.

  • This spirit gave way to the physicians, who regarded " chemistry as the art of preparing medicines," a denotation which in turn succumbed to the arguments of Boyle, who regarded it as the " science of the composition of substances," a definition which adequately fits the science to-day.

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