Dictionary Entry
appellative
appellative is a 11-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 23 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.
- 2adjective
Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
An appellation or title; a descriptive name.
- 5noun
identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
- 6adjective
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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- 7adjective
pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun
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