Associations to the word «Appellative»
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Wiktionary
APPELLATIVE, adjective. (grammar) Of or pertaining to a common noun.
APPELLATIVE, adjective. Of or pertaining to ascribing names.
APPELLATIVE, noun. A common noun.
APPELLATIVE, noun. An epithet.
Dictionary definition
APPELLATIVE, noun. Identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others.
APPELLATIVE, adjective. Pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun.
APPELLATIVE, adjective. Inclined to or serving for the giving of names; "the appellative faculty of children"; "the appellative function of some primitive rites".
Wise words
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -
in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us
to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions
all of a color.