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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | name, title |
| Synonyms: | address, baptize, call, christen, denominate, designate, dub, entitle, label, term |
| Main Entry: | title |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | name |
| Synonyms: | baptize, call, christen, denominate, designate, dub, entitle, label, style, term |
| Main Entry: | warrant |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | guarantee, justify, authorize |
| Synonyms: | affirm, answer for, approve, argue, assert, assure, attest, avouch, back, bear out, call for, certify, claim, commission, contend, declare, defend, delegate, demand, empower, endorse, ensure, entitle, excuse, explain, give grounds for, guaranty, insure, license, maintain, necessitate, permit, pledge, privilege, promise, require, sanction, secure, sponsor, stand behind, state, stipulate, swear, take an oath, undertake, underwrite, uphold, vindicate, vouch for, vow |
| Main Entry: | denominate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | name |
| Synonyms: | call, christen, designate, dub, entitle, label, title |
| Notes: | nominate means 'call the name of' (Latin nomen), while denominate means 'to give a name to' |
| Main Entry: | name |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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anonymous, cognominal, disquiparant, eponymous, euonymous, having no name, hight, innominate, known as, misnamed, named, nameless, ne, nee, nominal, nuncupative, nuncupatory, onymatic, onymous, orismological, polyonymous, pseudepigraphous, pseudonymous, scilicet, self, self, soi, theophoric, titular, unnamed, veritable, videlicet, what one may fairly call, what one may fitly call, what one may properly call, what one may well call, without a name, yclept
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| Concept: | Style. |
| Category: | 2. Conventional means; language generally |
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-nouns
style, diction, phraseology, wording; manner, strain; composition; mode of expression, choice of words; mode of speech, literary power, ready pen, pen of a ready writer; command of language (eloquence); authorship; la morgue littéraire.
-verbs
express by words; write.
-phrases
le style est l'homme même [Buffon]; "style is the dress of thoughts " [Chesterfield].
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| Concept: | Term. |
| Category: | 2. CONSECUTIVE ORDER |
| Synonyms: |
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term, rank, station, stage, step; degree; scale, remove, grade, link, peg, round of the ladder, status, position, place, point, mark, pas, period, pitch; stand, standing; footing, range.
-verbs
hold a place, occupy a place, find a place, fall into a place.
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| Concept: | Title. |
| Category: | 4. Extrinsic Affections |
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-nouns
title, honor; knighthood (nobility)., highness, excellency, grace; lordship, worship; reverence, reverend; esquire, sir, master, Mr., signor, señor, Mein Herr, mynheer; your honor, his honor; serene highness; handle to one's name., decoration, laurel, palm, wreath, garland, bays, medal, ribbon, riband, blue ribbon, cordon, cross, crown, coronet, star, garter; feather, feather in one's cap; epaulet, epaulette, colors, cockade; livery; order, arms, shield, scutcheon; reward.
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