appellative

appellative has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 11.

Definitions

• a.. Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.
• a.. Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class.
• 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 single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.
• n.. An appellation or title; a descriptive name.
• n.. identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
• a.. inclined to or serving for the giving of names; "the appellative faculty of children"; "the appellative function of some primitive rites"
• a.. pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun