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Meanings of appellative in English
Identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others.
Synonyms
Examples for "designation"
Examples for "designation"
1
It questions why we need gender designation, offering a gender neutral 'per'.
2
Institute of technology designation will, of course, attract industry to a region.
3
Every new PC purchased this year, for instance, must carry the designation.
4
Observe the difference in the designation given him in the two parts.
5
This last is the most common designation of the Buddha in China.
1
The interpretation of its meaning, however, often varies from denomination to denomination.
2
Bishop in the African Methodist Church and a power in that denomination.
3
He continues to rank all mankind under the general denomination of Gilbert.
4
She was amused to see that it asked for her religious denomination.
5
Some kind of a strange fringe denomination, something about the end times.
1
SOCRATES: There is no difficulty in explaining the other appellation of Athene.
2
The make-up of the Rabbinical Commission did not fully justify its appellation.
3
The master never resented this appellation, and took it in good humor.
4
I thought it was the author to whom persons gave that appellation.
5
He is known by that appellation throughout the cantons and their allies.
Usage of appellative in English
1
By the way, this self-same appellative, Pandora, has been bestowed upon vessels.
2
Upon the other was bestowed the equally desirable appellative of Cornelia.
3
Why,' said the prof, 'to employ a vulgarism, perspicuity is my penultimate appellative.'
4
Wily Will justified his appellative; for, after suspicion arose, he was seen no more.
5
This dreadful appellative, "a murderer," made my very blood run cold within me.
6
It assumes the nature and character of an appellative noun, and carries the article The System.
7
They had a suspicious appellative for their island, true; but not thus seemed it to them.
8
How different this appellative sounded from him; he said it in such a tone, with such a rogueish look!
9
Balhara is not a proper name, but an appellative, common to all those kings, like Cosroes and some others.
10
In truth, an old salt is very much of an old maid, though, strictly speaking, far from deserving that misdeemed appellative.
11
Her appellative had been bestowed in honor of a high chief, the tallest and goodliest looking gentleman in all the Sandwich Islands.
12
Bertie was known generally in the brigade as "Beauty," and the appellative, gained at Eton, was in no way undeserved.
13
The alphabet is general property, and everyone has the right to use it for the creation of a word forming an appellative sound.
14
It is a fact, well understood, that I begged the students who first gave me the endearing appellative 'mother' not to name me thus.
15
Not inaptly has the one river-allgentleness, yieldingness, and suavity-wona feminine, the other-all force, impetuosity and stern will-obtained for itself a masculine, appellative!
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Indeed, his earlier appellative, "He Wipes His Nose on His Sleeve," was said to have been given to him to indicate his still boy-like habits.
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Appellative through the time