appellative
Example Sentences
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Now a taxidermied water buffalo head — the ox — watches from above the bar, while the appellative bull is represented across from it in gleaming metal.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
I did not know him as Lamb: I took him for a Mr. "Guy," having heard somebody address him by that appellative, I suppose in jest.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
Such, however, is not the case, George being his only Christian appellative.
From Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by H.C. Adams
In referring to the root ark, erk, I have omitted the Ir. earc, water, the appellative most nearly concerned.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
Those which, passing out of the appellative into the descriptive, characterize a river as that which runs violently, that which flows gently, or that which spreads widely.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
