denotation
Example Sentences
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They have the denotation level, which is what they mean in the dictionary sense.
From Salon • Feb. 9, 2022
Diverse, however, has positive connotations in this same context, despite its neutral denotation of “varied.”
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
He creates a stirring reciprocity between visual denotation and material form.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2015
If you have not thought much about iambs and trochees, or denotation and connotation, or synecdoche and metonymy in recent years, you are in for a day tripper’s version of literary spelunking.
From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2011
A stroller with a French fiddle comes within the denotation of the word: a towel-rail is also called mambro from some fancied resemblance to the fiddle.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
