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
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.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
In many instances a word meaning river or runner remained the proper name of one river, without ever rising to the dignity of an appellative.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
The meaning of river, water, must have belonged to this wide-spread root, though I never find it applied as an appellative, apart from the obsolete Dutch word aar, which Pott produces.
From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert
To the root ud place as an appellative the Obs.
From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert
