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appellation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun appellation has 1 sense
- appellation(n = noun.communication) appellative, denomination, designation - identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others; Array is a kind of name
has particulars: street name, byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet, form of address, title, title of respect, title
CIDE DICTIONARY
appellation, n. [L. appellatio, fr. appellare: cf. F. appellation. See Appeal.].
- The act of appealing; appeal. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- The act of calling by a name. [1913 Webster]
- The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation. [1913 Webster]"They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates." [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- See Name.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
appellation, n. formal a name or title; nomenclature.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. L appellatio -onis (as APPEAL, -ATION)
THESAURUS
appellation
appellative, baptism, binomen, binomial name, byword, calling, christening, cognomen, cryptonym, definition, denomination, designation, empty title, epithet, eponym, euonym, handle, honorific, hyponym, identification, label, moniker, name, namesake, naming, nicknaming, nomen, nomen nudum, proper name, proper noun, scientific name, secret name, style, styling, tag, tautonym, terming, title, trinomen, trinomial name
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