English to English
adjective
- pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun
source: WordNet 3.0
- Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.
source: Webster 1913
noun
- identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
source: WordNet 3.0
- A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.
source: Webster 1913
adjective satellite
- inclined to or serving for the giving of names
The appellative faculty of children.
The appellative function of some primitive rites.
source: WordNet 3.0
