Associations to the word «Signifier»

Wiktionary

SIGNIFIER, noun. (linguistics) The sound of spoken word or string of letters on a page that a person recognizes as a sign.

Dictionary definition

SIGNIFIER, noun. The phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin