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Definition of Appellative
Ap`pel´la`tive | a. | 1. | Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. | | 2. | (Gram.) Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class. | | n. | 1. | 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. | | 2. | An appellation or title; a descriptive name. |
Related Words
denotative, denotive, naming
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