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Appellation

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noun. A name, title, or designation.

noun. A protected name under which a wine may be sold, indicating that the grapes used are of a specific kind from a specific district.

noun. The act of naming.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

noun. The act of appealing from a lower to a higher court or authority; appeal.

noun. The act of appealing for aid, sympathy, etc.; entreaty.

noun. The act of naming; nomenclature.

noun. The word by which a person or thing is called and known; name; title.

noun. In logic, the acceptation of a term to denote an existing thing.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

noun. The act of appealing; appeal.

noun. The act of calling by a name.

noun. The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

noun. A name, title, or designation.

noun. An indication for wine that describes its geographic origin.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

noun. identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others

Word Usage

"I ain't even in the biz, but even I know that the correct appellation is neither "movie" nor "film"."

cross-reference

formal appellation

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

name

Hyponym

Words that are more specific

byname cognomen form of address moniker nickname

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Alsatian Americanization Appalachian Balkanization Christianization

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

allusion analogy attribute denomination designation

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

appeal appellative baptism binomen binomial name