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English to English adjective
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pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun |  | source: wordnet30
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Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. | | source: webster1913
adjective satellite
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inclined to or serving for the giving of names | | Example: the appellative faculty of children
the appellative function of some primitive rites
source: wordnet30
noun
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identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others | | source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913
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