Associations to the word «Appellation»

Wiktionary

APPELLATION, noun. (formal or dated) A name, title, or designation.
APPELLATION, noun. An indication for wine that describes its geographic origin.

Dictionary definition

APPELLATION, noun. Identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne