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

With every proper name the etymological operation is by one degree more difficult than with an appellative....

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew

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

From The Devourers by Chartres, Annie Vivanti

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