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Definition of Appellative

Appellative Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class. 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. An appellation or title; a descriptive name. Related Definitions: All, An, And, Appellation, Appellative, Are, As, Class, Common, Denomination, Denominative, Descriptive, Distinction, Distinctive, Earth, For, From, Genus, Grow, Hand, Ideas, In, Is, Lake, Name, Naming, Of, On, Opposed, Or, Other, Out, Particular, Pertaining, Plant, Proper, Serving, Single, Species, That, The, Thing, Thus, Title, To, Tree, Universal, Vegetable, Whole

Appellative Translations appellative in German is bittend appellative in Italian is pregante

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