Associations to the word «Appellative»
Noun
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Wiktionary
APPELLATIVE, adjective. (grammar) Of or pertaining to a common noun.
APPELLATIVE, adjective. Of or pertaining to ascribing names.
APPELLATIVE, noun. A common noun.
APPELLATIVE, noun. An epithet.
Dictionary definition
APPELLATIVE, noun. Identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others.
APPELLATIVE, adjective. Pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun.
APPELLATIVE, adjective. Inclined to or serving for the giving of names; "the appellative faculty of children"; "the appellative function of some primitive rites".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.