appellative
Example Sentences
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Now a taxidermied water buffalo head — the ox — watches from above the bar, while the appellative bull is represented across from it in gleaming metal.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2023
The meaning of river, water, must have belonged to this wide-spread root, though I never find it applied as an appellative, apart from the obsolete Dutch word aar, which Pott produces.
From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert
The only appellative for a river which I find derived from its sound is the Sanscrit nadi, Hind. nuddy, from nad, sonare.
From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert
With every proper name the etymological operation is by one degree more difficult than with an appellative....
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew
From the verb comes the appellative ffrwd, a torrent, corresponding with the Bohem. praud, of the same meaning.
From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
