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Definitions of appellative

The word appellative uses 11 letters: a, a, e, e, i, l, l, p, p, t, v

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Meanings of appellative

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

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

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.

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