Appellative is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for APPELLATIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a common noun or common name (as distinguished from a proper name)
• a common noun, such as ‘doctor’, ‘mother’, or ‘sir’, used as a vocative.
• 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.
• An appellation or title; a descriptive name.
• identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
• a common noun, such as ‘doctor’, ‘mother’, or ‘sir’, used as a vocative.
ADJECTIVE:
• relating to naming
• relating to or denoting the giving of a name.
• Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.
• Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class.
• pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun
• inclined to or serving for the giving of names
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• of or relating to a common noun

Words related to APPELLATIVE

appellatively23 appellatives19

Words that contain APPELLATIVE

appellatives19 appellatively23

How to use APPELLATIVE in a sentence

• Balhara is not a proper name, but an appellative, common to all those kings, like Cosroes and some others.
• It is time that honest men should speak out, and fasten upon these scourges of their country, their proper appellative.
• It was agreed to disuse the dishonoured name of De Vallance, and adopt the endeared appellative of Evellin, to which was annexed the title of Baronet.
• The professors of singing triumph, for they find in this appellative form, always and necessarily sharp and boisterous at the same time, a striking confirmation of their system.
• We shall add, at the end, the appellative names contained in the laws, with their original and explication.

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