APPELLATIVE
\ɐpˈɛlətˌɪv], \ɐpˈɛlətˌɪv], \ɐ_p_ˈɛ_l_ə_t_ˌɪ_v]\
Definitions of APPELLATIVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
By Princeton University
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identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.
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Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class.
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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 single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.
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An appellation or title; a descriptive name.
By Oddity Software
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Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.
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Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class.
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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 single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.
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An appellation or title; a descriptive name.
By Noah Webster.
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A name common to all of the same kind, as distinguished from a proper name.
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Common to many: general.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Serving to designate or name, as common nouns.
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A title; appellation; a common noun.
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Appellatively.
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Appellativeness.
By James Champlin Fernald