Australian English Meaning of appellative

common name

Other Australian English words related to common name

Definitions and Meaning of appellative in English

Wordnet

appellative (n)

identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others

Wordnet

appellative (a)

pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun

Wordnet

appellative (s)

inclined to or serving for the giving of names

Webster

appellative (a.)

Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.

Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class.

Webster

appellative (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.

An appellation or title; a descriptive name.

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common name

identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others, pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common

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appellation => appellation, appellate court => Appeal court, appellate => appellate, appellant => appellant, appellancy => appellant,