Look up: connotation

1. connotation
   suggestion in addition to 
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2. connotation
   [Noun] What a word makes you think of.
   Example: The teenagers all carried cigarette packets in the play and the school said they were unhappy with the health connotations associated with smoking.
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3. connotation
   [n] - an idea that is implied or suggested
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4. Connotation
   (Connotation / denotation (connote / connotative denote / denotative)) The denotation of a word is its direct, literal or specific meaning (as can be found in a dictionary). If a word also has implied or associated meanings when used in a certain way, these are called the word's connotations. The wo...
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5. Connotation
   the various secondary meanings and overtones of a word: what associations it carries.
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6. Connotation
   used in semiotics to indicate the interpretive meanings of signs, which may be ideological. Thus a picture of a soldier saluting a flag connotes nationhood and patriotism as well as the more straightforward things such as `soldier' and `flag' that it denotes.
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7. connotation
   an association or idea suggested by a word or phrase Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)
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8. Connotation
   Con`no·ta'tion noun [ Confer French connotation .] The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
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9. connotation
   noun an idea that is implied or suggested
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10. Connotation
    • (n.) The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
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11. Connotation
    [semiotics] In semiotics, connotation arises when the denotative relationship between a signifier and its signified is inadequate to serve the needs of the community. A second level of meanings is termed connotative. These meanings are not objective representations of the thing, but new usag...
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12. Connotation
    A connotation is a commonly understood subjective cultural or emotional association that some word or phrase carries, in addition to the word`s or phrase`s explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation. A connotation is frequently described as either positive or negative, with regards to its...
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13. connotation
    those words, things, or ideas with which a word often keeps company but which it does not actually denote. A word's semantic field consists largely of its lexical associations, that is, its more or less frequent collocations.
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14. connotation
    Emotions and associations which the use of a specific word evokes within the reader / listener.
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15. Connotation
    The sum of the constitutive notes of the essence of a concept as it is in itself and not as it is for us. This logical property is thus measured by the sum of the notes of the concept, of the higher genera it implies, of the various essential attributes of its nature as such. This term is synonymous...
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16. connotation
    Additional meaning or meanings carried by a word which exceed the obvious or literal definition. The most common usage is in metaphor. Calling someone a `sloth`, instead of meaning that the person looks like a sloth, uses the connotation of that animal with its characteristic slow movement, thus the metaphor is employed to suggest that th...
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