1) Appellation 2) Cognomen 3) Denotative 4) Denotive 5) Designation 6) Moniker 7) Name 8) Naming 9) Nickname 10) Sobriquet 11) Soubriquet
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1) Content word 2) Open-class word 3) Substantive
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• (n.) A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a sin...
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1. A common name, distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; a...
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Ap·pel'la·tive adjective [ Latin
appellativus , from
appellare : confer French
appelatif . See
Appeal .]
1. Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.
Cudworth. 2. (Gram.) Common, as opposed to...
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[
adj] - pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun 2. [adj] - inclined to or serving for the giving of names
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naming(a) adjective inclined to or serving for the giving of names; `the appellative faculty of children`; `the appellative function of some primitive rites`
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a descriptive name or designation, as Bald in Charles the Bald. · a common noun.
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