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Another word for designate

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Verb

  1. To make known or identify, as by signs

    See also:

    show

  2. To set aside or apart for a specified purpose

    See also:

    money

    collect

  3. To give a name or title to

    See also:

    words

    specific

  4. To describe with a word or term

    See also:

    words

    specific

  5. To select for an office or position

    See also:

    choice

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Another word for designate

Verb

  1. To specify

    See also:

    .name

    choose

  2. To appoint

    See also:

    delegate

    assign

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • we designate the book 4 Ezra.

  • After the word Asia had acquired its larger sense, it was still specially used by the Greeks to designate the country around Ephesus.

  • and the name Scoloti, by which careful modern writers designate the Royal Scyths, is the true designation of the subject race.

  • It is impossible to designate as a concordat the concessions which were wrested by violence from Pius VII.

  • One force was to be put ashore about the extremity of the peninsula - an area which it is convenient to designate as " Helles."

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