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 Strang, Herbert
She had learned the tender German appellative from Fr�ulein.
From The Devourers by Chartres, Annie Vivanti
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
Archer’s name is generally associated with it, but without taking that definite and appellative form it ought to.
