Associations to the word «Signified»

Wiktionary

SIGNIFIED, noun. (linguistics) (structuralism) The concept or idea evoked by a sign.
SIGNIFIED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of signify

Dictionary definition

SIGNIFIED, noun. The meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted; "the dictionary gave several senses for the word"; "in the best sense charity is really a duty"; "the signifier is linked to the signified".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope