Definitions for appellative

appellative ap·pel·la·tive

Spelling: [uh-pel-uh-tiv]
IPA: /əˈpɛl ə tɪv/

Appellative is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 357 anagrams from letters in appellative (aaeeillpptv).

Definitions for appellative

noun

  1. a descriptive name or designation, as Bald in Charles the Bald.
  2. a common noun.

adjective

  1. designative; descriptive.
  2. tending toward or serving for the assigning of names:
  3. pertaining to a common noun.

Origin of appellative

1375-1425; late Middle English (Middle French) Late Latin appellātīvus. See appellate, -ive

Examples for appellative

In the curious case of Elle Fanning, however, the appellative is entirely deserved.

The only appellative I find, (if it can be called one), is the Ang.-Sax.

Wily Will justified his appellative; for, after suspicion arose, he was seen no more.

The appellative "Elias" is in fact both a personal name and a title.

The schoolmaster's surname led him as far into dissertation as his Christian appellative.

Such, however, is not the case, George being his only Christian appellative.

At the sound of the tender Russian appellative she turned to me quickly.

It is however replaced in the New Testament by an appellative.

That ayogriha is the name of the prince, not an appellative, appears from the Pli recensions.

So much for the name as an appellative; now for its appropriation as a generic.

Word Value for appellative
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