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

And it is certain that all proper or individual names have been originally appellative or general.”

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

This familiar appellative had followed him into the army.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton

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 Strang, Herbert

She had learned the tender German appellative from Fr�ulein.

From The Devourers by Chartres, Annie Vivanti