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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirect representation, storytelling |
| Synonyms: | apologue, emblem, fable, figuration, moral, myth, parable, story, symbol, symbolism, symbolization, tale, typification |
| Main Entry: | meaning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | message, signification |
| Synonyms: | acceptation, allusion, bearing, bottom line, connotation, content, context, definition, denotation, drift, effect, essence, explanation, force, gist, heart*, hint, implication, import, interpretation, intimation, meat, name of the game, nature of beast, nitty-gritty, nuance, nuts and bolts, pith, point, purport, sense, significance, spirit, stuff, subject, subject matter, substance, suggestion, symbolization, tenor, thrust, understanding, upshot, use, value, worth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sign |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | document with information; symbol |
| Synonyms: | badge, board, character, cipher, crest, device, emblem, ensign, guidepost, insignia, logo, mark, notice, placard, proof, representation, signboard, signpost, symbolization, token, type, warning |
| Main Entry: | suggestion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hint, implication |
| Synonyms: | allusion, association, autosuggestion, breath, clue, connotation, cue, indication, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, intimation, notion, overtone, reminder, self-suggestion, shade, signification, smack, soupçon, strain, suspicion, symbol, symbolism, symbolization, symbology, telltale, thought, tinge, trace, undertone, vein, whisper, wind |
| Main Entry: | defense mechanism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | protective activity |
| Synonyms: | conversion, defense, defense reaction, repression, sublimation, suppression, symbolization |
| Main Entry: | significancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meaning |
| Synonyms: | acceptation, allusion, bearing, bottom line, connotation, content, context, definition, denotation, drift*, effect, essence, explanation, force, gist*, heart*, hint, implication, import, intent, interpretation, intimation, meat*, message, name of the game, nature of beast, nitty-gritty, nuance, nuts and bolts, pith, point, purport, sense, significance, signification, spirit, stuff*, subject, subject matter, substance, suggestion, symbolization, tenor, thrust, understanding, upshot, use, value, worth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | signification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meaning |
| Synonyms: | acceptation, allusion, bearing, bottom line, connotation, content, context, definition, denotation, drift*, effect, essence, explanation, force, gist*, heart*, hint, implication, import, intent, interpretation, intimation, meat*, message, name of the game, nature of beast, nitty-gritty, nuance, nuts and bolts, pith, point, purport, sense, significance, significancy, spirit, stuff*, subject, subject matter, substance, suggestion, symbolization, tenor, thrust, understanding, upshot, use, value, worth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | art |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Biedermeier, Parian, Queen Anne, annulate, anomphalous, aperture, artificial, artistic, banded, botonée, broché, camera, chryselephantine, collared, condensed, copied, coppertoning, cross, displayed, expanded, exploded, fictile, figulate, figurative, filigreed, florid, flowery, futuramic, graphic, hard, ideoplastic, illustrated, illustrative, imitative, inclave, incuse, latticed, lavaliere, like, linear, lineate, lineolate, made, malleated, manufactured, marmoreal, matelassé, matte, mosaic, nonchromatic, oil, ornamented, ornate, orthochromatic, outlined, panchromatic, pencil, pictorial, picturesque, plaid, plastic, plateresque, pommée, punctate, punctiform, punctuate, raw, refractory, representative, represented, representing, ringstreaked, roman, rosular, scalariform, scrimshaw, semigloss, shutter, site, streaked, supellectile, tessellated, testaceous, textorial, vermiculate, vitreous, vittate, volant, vulned, waffle, washed
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| Main Entry: | meaning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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alike, allegorical, allusive, ambiguous, amphibological, amphibolous, anagogical, antonymous, catachrestical, colloquial, correspondent, corresponding, declaratory, delphic, dilogical, equipollent, equivalent, equivocal, exact, explicit, expressive, figurative, full of meaning, hermenutic, homonymous, horrent, identical, intelligible, interchangeable, ironical, jussive, linsey, literatim, lucid, meaning, metaphorical, of similar meaning, of the same meaning, parabolic, perspicuous, pithy, pregnant with meaning, same, significant, significative, significatory, similar, suggestive, synonymic, synonymous, tantamount, tralatitious, typical
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