appellative

n. name, designation

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Noun
1. identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
(synonym) appellation, denomination, designation
(hypernym) name
(hyponym) street name

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Adjective
1. pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun
(pertainym) noun
2. inclined to or serving for the giving of names; "the appellative faculty of children"; "the appellative function of some primitive rites"
(synonym) naming(a)
(similar) denotative, denotive

adj. appellative

(n.)
An appellation or title; a descriptive name.
  

(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.
  

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

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

adj.
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