Synonyms for "referent" (57 found)

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Closest matches (12)

affective meaningbearingcoloringconnotationconsequencedenotationdenotativedesignatumdrifteffectessence

Noun(1 words)

designatum

Strong matches (17)

extensionforcegistgrammatical meaningideaimpactimplicationimportintensionlexical meaningliteral meaningmeaningovertonepertinencepithpointpractical consequence

Related words (28)

prototypepurportrange of meaningreal meaningreferencerelationrelevancescopesemantic clustersemantic fieldsensesignificancesignificationsignificatumsignifiespan of meaningspiritstructural meaningsubstancesum

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sum and substancesymbolic meaningtenortotality of associationstransferred meaningunadorned meaningundertonevalue

Related word relations

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8 relation types

More general

5 entries

importmeaningsignificancesignificationterm

Related terms

7 entries

antecedentcoreferentreferreferencereferentialreferralreferrer

derived

3 entries

absent referentnonreferentreferentless

derived from

1 entries

refer

has context

1 entries

semantics

is a

2 entries

meaningterm

related to

2 entries

referreference

similar

3 entries

denotativedenotive

Translations

9 translations across 8 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries

• референт noun (that which a term denotes)

Czech

1 entries

• referent noun (that which a term denotes)

Danish

1 entries

• referent noun (that which a term denotes)

Finnish

2 entries

• referentti noun (that which a term denotes)
• tarkoite noun (that which a term denotes)

Italian

1 entries

• referente noun (that which a term denotes)

Polish

1 entries

• desygnat noun (that which a term denotes)

Swedish

1 entries

• referent noun (that which a term denotes)

Welsh

1 entries

• cyfeirair noun (that which a term denotes)

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

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