Signification

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  • noun. Meaning or significance, especially of a word.
  • noun. The action or process of signifying.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of signifying or making known; expression or indication of meaning in any manner.
  • noun. A fact as signified; an established or intended meaning; the import of anything by which thought is or may be communicated; connotation, or logical comprehension; implication; sense: as, the signification of a word or a gesture; the significations of mathematical and other conventional signs.
  • noun. Significance; occult meaning; a fact as inferable from a phenomenon of which it is said to be the signification.
  • noun. In French-Canadian law, the act of giving notice; notification.
  • noun. Synonyms Meaning, etc. See significance.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means.
  • noun. That which is signified or made known; that meaning which a sign, character, or token is intended to convey.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of signifying, or something that is signified; significance.
  • noun. Evidence for the existence of something.
  • noun. A meaning of a word.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the message that is intended or expressed or signified
  • Word Usage
    "- The patrons of the Egyptian origin of the sacred name appeal to the common Egyptian formula, Nuk pu nuk but though its literal signification is “I am I”, its real meaning is “It is I who” …"
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