designation
designation is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.
- 2.That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation. The usual designation of the days of the week. Whewell.
- 3.Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase. Finite and infinite seem . . . to be attributed primarily, in their first designation, only to those things have parts. Locke.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accession
- agency
- agent
- agentship
- agnomen
- all
- and
- antonomasia
- antonym
- appointment
- assignment
- attorney
- authority
- baptism
- baptize
- bean
- bird
- brevet
- by-name
- byword
- call
- cant
- caption
- captive
- capture
- characterize
- charge
- charter
- christen
- clepe
- clerkship
- close
- cognomen
- cognominal
- cognomination
- commission
- compellation
- consignee
- consignment
- convertible
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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