Crossword-Solution: APPELLATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Appellative | a. | Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. |
| Appellative | a. | Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class. |
| Appellative | n. | 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. |
| Appellative | n. | An appellation or title; a descriptive name. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “APPELLATIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| PROPER name | 3 answers |
| byname | 8 answers |
| family name | 11 answers |
| Cognomen. | 13 answers |
| pet name | 19 answers |
| Denomination | 25 answers |
| Appellation | 25 answers |
| Designation | 28 answers |
| signature | 51 answers |
| CATEGORY ___ | 63 answers |
| Diminutive | 65 answers |
| Classification | 87 answers |
| CLASS ___ | 94 answers |
| Name | 101 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with APPELLATIVE (5)
After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.
Every island, says Sir Edmund Head, and truly--for the name of almost every island on the coast of England, Scotland, and Eastern Ireland, ends in either _ey_ or _ay_ or _oe_, a Norse appellative, as is the word "island" itself--is a mark of its having been, at some time or other, visited by the Vikings of Scandinavia.
Berlin City would, to this day, have been a Place of SCRUBS ("the BERLIN," a mere appellative noun to that effect), had Free-trade always been the rule there.
Indeed, his earlier appellative, "He Wipes his Nose on his Sleeve," was said to have been given to him to indicate his still boy-like habits.
Old Marmaduke, for this formidable prenomen was a kind of appellative to the race, brought with him, to that asylum of the persecuted an abundance of the good things of this life.