Signification
[,sɪgnɪfɪ'keɪʃ(ə)n] or ['sɪgnɪfə'keʃən]
Definition
(n.) The act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means.
(n.) That which is signified or made known; that meaning which a sign, character, or token is intended to convey; as, the signification of words.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Expression.[2]. Meaning, sense, import, purport, acceptation.
Edited by Karl
Examples
- Yet so strong is the appearance of this having occurred that naturalists can hardly avoid employing language having this plain signification. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Your censor-pencil scored it with condemnatory lines, whose signification I strove vainly to fathom. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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