noun. The act of denoting; indication.

noun. Something, such as a sign or symbol, that denotes.

noun. Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol.

noun. The most specific or direct meaning of a word, in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.

noun. The act of denoting or indicating by a name or other sign; the attaching of a designation to an object; that function of a name or other designation by which it calls up to the mind addressed the idea of an object for which it may stand.

noun. That which a word denotes, names, or marks, in distinction from that which it means or signifies. See connotation.

noun. The marking off or separation of anything.

noun. The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes

noun. The primary, literal, or explicit meaning of a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.

noun. The intension and extension of a word

noun. Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol

noun. The surface or literal meaning encoded to a signifier, and the definition most likely to appear in a dictionary

noun. Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics

noun. A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.

noun. the act of indicating or pointing out by name

noun. the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to

"To say that name has no denotation is like saying, in 1970, that “The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics” has no denotation because the entities in question are not genuinely soviet, are not genuinely socialist and are not genuinely republics."

connotation  

denotative  

meaning  naming  substance  

narrate  remember  subtext  

meaning