denotation

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But then we bring grammar and syntax and diction and meaning making and connotation and denotation, we take the ocean of sign system and make it into sentences and words, meanings.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2022

They have the denotation level, which is what they mean in the dictionary sense.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2022

Beginning writers tend to think that definition writing looks only at the denotation, or dictionary definition.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

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

Connotā′tion, implication of something more than the denotation of an object: the aggregation of attributes connoted by a term.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various