Appellation
[,æpə'leɪʃ(ə)n] or [,æpə'leʃən]
Definition
(noun.) identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others.
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Definition
(n.) The act of appealing; appeal.
(n.) The act of calling by a name.
(n.) The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Name, title, epithet, cognomen, denomination, style, description, designation, descriptive term.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Name, patronymic, cognomen, style, description, designation, title, denomination,term
ANT:Namelessness, non-description, anonymousness
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Definition
n. that by which anything is called: a name especially one attached to a particular person.—adj. Appellā′tional.—n. Appell′ative a name common to all of the same kind as distinguished from a proper name: a designation.—adj. common to many: general: of or pertaining to the giving of names.—adv. Appell′atively.
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Examples
- At another time we were haunted for several days by an apparition, to which our people gave the appellation of the Black Spectre. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I said, I had not; and desired he would explain to me what he meant by such an appellation, applied to a mortal creature. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Her real name was Fanny Cleaver; but she had long ago chosen to bestow upon herself the appellation of Miss Jenny Wren. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- How can she find any appellation for them, deep enough in familiar vulgarity? Jane Austen. Emma.
- In talking, they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The appellation was not flattering, but not unmerited. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- All other things I call luxuries, without meaning, by this appellation, to throw the smallest degree of reproach upon the temperate use of them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Among them, father is the appellation of a superior; brother, of an equal; and son, of an inferior. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She wanted to show little Fanny, for by that appellation we distinguished her eldest daughter, the Harlequin farce, before she returned to school. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The second is the class of the cultivators, of farmers and country labourers, whom they honour with the peculiar appellation of the productive class. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Dreamer, fool, boaster were among the appellations bestowed upon him by unbelieving critics. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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