NOUN
- the act of indicating or pointing out by name
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the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to
the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos
How To Use denotation In A Sentence
- I guess you can get the smart person award for the person who got that little denotation!
- The simplest denotation of a tree, a trunk dividing upward into two thick branches, appears against placeless black.
- I love the parallel nuttiness of the denotations and the curiously balanced and opposed vowel sounds that follow.
- This type of denotation was not used just to name the child in question, but to express the kind of bond and identification that preservice teachers had developed with their children.
- Employing unit is a concept and category with particular connotation and denotation in our labor law.
- In feudal society , its denotation is personality - killing and absolute integrity and super stability.
- Economy in denotation and connotation can prohibit thought as well as promote it.
- Revenge was such a malicious and stupid act in some people's definition, but the denotation to her was justice.
- His overarching definition of the archive is rooted in a turn-of-the-century culture in which denotations of class and classification became a basis for photographic meaning.
- Those of us who weren't born before WWII know the denotation of the name ‘Hitler’ but we have no experience with the connotation.
