Appellative

[ә'pelәtiv]

解释:

(adj.) inclined to or serving for the giving of names; 'the appellative faculty of children'; 'the appellative function of some primitive rites' .

(adj.) pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun .

校对:谢尔曼--From WordNet

解释:

(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.

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