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Identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
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appellative
Word definitions for appellative in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Latin appellativus , from appellat- , past participle stem of appellare (see appeal ). As a noun, attested from 1590s.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun inclined to or serving for the giving of names; "the appellative faculty of children"; "the appellative function of some primitive rites" [syn: naming(a) ] n. identifying word or words by which ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appellative \Ap*pel"la*tive\, a. [L. appellativus, fr. appellare: cf. F. appelatif. See Appeal .] Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. --Cudworth. (Gram.) Common, as opposed to proper ; denominative of ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context grammar English) Of or pertaining to a common noun. 2 Of or pertaining to ascribing name. n. 1 A common noun. 2 An epithet.
Usage examples of appellative.
Nonetheless, despite his unfortunate appellative and annoying eagerness to make a mark, Glick was sweet .
The alphabet is general property, and everyone has the right to use it for the creation of a word forming an appellative sound.
Do simple poetical phrases, descriptive of heavenly phenomena, remain current in the popular mouth after the meanings of appellatives (Bright One, Dark One, &c.
People, he thinks, in making riddles 'would avoid the ordinary appellatives, and the use of little-known names in most mythologies would thus find an intelligible explanation.
Chickens offered their breasts: pies hinted savoury secrets: things mystic, in a mash, with Gallic appellatives, jellies, creams, fruits, strewed the table: as a tower in the midst, the cake colossal: the priestly vesture of its nuptial white relieved by hymeneal splendours.
This is the burden of Jeremy Bentham's quarrel with "question-begging appellatives.
Some times these appellatives were derived from some distinctiveness of dress, as in the case of "Dunga ree Jack".
Takooka was by far the most common of my appellatives, but I answered to them all.