Associations to the word «Appellation»

Wiktionary

APPELLATION, noun. (formal or dated) A name, title, or designation.
APPELLATION, noun. An indication for wine that describes its geographic origin.

Dictionary definition

APPELLATION, noun. Identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky