signifié

[ see-nyee-fyey ]

noun

, French.

, plural si·gni·fiés [see-nyee-, fyey],

1. (in linguistics) the signified.

Example Sentences

The Lexicon technicum of 1704 expressed the rapidly emerging consensus: ALCHYMIST, is one that studies Alchymy; that is, the Sublimer Part of Chymistry which teaches the Transmutation of Metals and the Philosopher’s Stone; according to the Cant of the Adeptists, who amuse the Ignorant and Unthinking with hard Words and Non-sense: For were it not for the Arabick Particle Al, which they will needs have to be of wonderful vertue here, the word would signifie no more than Chymistry.

From Literature

Au contraire, cela signifie la réappropriation du corps et de ma féminité.

From New York Times

Porter le voile ne signifie pas être asservie par un homme.

From New York Times

Of chiromancia and phisiognomia, and other signes and tokens, and what euery one doth signifie.

From Project Gutenberg

The occasion is, for yt one figure or character vnto them all doth signifie one thing, although in the pronouncing there is difference in the vowels.

From Project Gutenberg