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
We had not yet shown ourselves, and Wabberley continued shouting, sometimes, "Ahoy!" sometimes my name, always prefixing the respectful appellative "master," and not calling me plain "Brent," as Hoggett had done.
From Palm Tree Island by Herbert Strang
In the distracted times of early revolution, any nickname, however vague, will fully answer a purpose, although neither those who are blackened by the odium, nor those who cast it, can define the hateful appellative.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
Even despotic governments have condescended to disguise the contributions forcibly levied, by some appellative which should partly conceal its real nature.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
In the above Sansc. var, to moisten, to water, is contained, as I take it, the root of the Finnic wirta, a river, the only appellative I can find for the following.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
