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View synonyms for appellative

appellative

[ uh-pel-uh-tiv ]

noun

  1. a descriptive name or designation, as Bald in Charles the Bald.
  2. a common noun.


adjective

  1. designative; descriptive.
  2. tending toward or serving for the assigning of names:

    the appellative function of some primitive rites.

  3. pertaining to a common noun.

appellative

/ əˈpɛlətɪv /

noun

  1. an identifying name or title; appellation
  2. grammar another word for common noun
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. of or relating to a name or title
  2. (of a proper noun) used as a common noun
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • apˈpellatively, adverb
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Other Words From

  • ap·pella·tive·ly adverb
  • ap·pella·tive·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of appellative1

1375–1425; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Late Latin appellātīvus. See appellate, -ive
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Example Sentences

In the curious case of Elle Fanning, however, the appellative is entirely deserved.

Hence appellative words bearing any affinity with the names of the deceased are presently abolished.

We shall add, at the end, the appellative names contained in the laws, with their original and explication.

We must remember that nearly all Grecian proper names had some meaning: being compounds or derivatives from appellative nouns.

The schoolmaster's surname led him as far into dissertation as his Christian appellative.

But to make an application of the latter appellative at this time, would operate as an invitation to be knocked down.

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