referent
Example Sentences
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You can tweak a reference all you like, but the referent will stay just the same.
From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2021
“It’s not the most typical referent for ‘sandwich,’” he mused.
From The Verge • Apr. 9, 2020
In “Limonov,” Carrère once again reminds us of Dostoyevsky, his most constant cultural referent when in his Russian mode.
From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2019
The beaver was so neutered in the postwar years that its major referent became a 7-year-old boy.
From Slate • Dec. 3, 2014
Erastis had warned him about the dangers of losing your referent.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
