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Appellation :: Appellation (n.) The act of appealing; appeal.

Appellation :: Appellation (n.) The act of calling by a name.

Appellation :: Appellation (n.) The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation.

Appellative :: Appellative (a.) Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.

Appellative :: Appellative (a.) Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class..

Appellative :: Appellative (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..

Appellative :: Appellative (n.) An appellation or title; a descriptive name.

Appellatively :: Appellatively (adv.) After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man..

Appellativeness :: Appellativeness (n.) The quality of being appellative.