APPELLATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does appellation mean? 

• APPELLATION (noun)
  The noun APPELLATION has 2 senses:

1. identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others

2. a geographical indication used to identify where the grapes for a wine are grown

  Familiarity information: APPELLATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPELLATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

appellation; appellative; denomination; designation

Hypernyms ("appellation" is a kind of...):

name (a language unit by which a person or thing is known)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "appellation"):

street name (an alternative name that a person chooses or is given (especially in inner city neighborhoods))

byname; cognomen; moniker; nickname; sobriquet; soubriquet (a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name))

form of address; title; title of respect (an identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. 'Mr.' or 'General')

title (an appellation signifying nobility)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A geographical indication used to identify where the grapes for a wine are grown

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("appellation" is a kind of...):

geographical indication; GI ((law) a name or sign used on certain products which corresponds to a specific geographical location or origin)

 Context examples 

In talking, they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A descriptive or distinctive appellation, especially one belonging to a person by right of rank, office, attainment, etc.

(Organizational Contact Title, NCI Thesaurus)

How can she find any appellation for them, deep enough in familiar vulgarity?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

What's your name now,—P? said my aunt, as a compromise for the obnoxious appellation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I said, “I had not;” and desired he would explain to me “what he meant by such an appellation, applied to a mortal creature.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

This fact, my dear sir, combined with the distinguished elevation to which your talents have raised you, deters me from presuming to aspire to the liberty of addressing the companion of my youth, by the familiar appellation of Copperfield!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But having here accidentally mentioned a minister of state, he commanded me, some time after, to inform him, “what species of Yahoo I particularly meant by that appellation.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In an accumulation of Ignominy, Want, Despair, and Madness, I entered the office—or, as our lively neighbour the Gaul would term it, the Bureau—of the Firm, nominally conducted under the appellation of Wickfield and—HEEP, but in reality, wielded by—HEEP alone.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Neither has their language any more than a general appellation for those maladies, which is borrowed from the name of the beast, and called hnea-yahoo, or Yahoo’s evil; and the cure prescribed is a mixture of their own dung and urine, forcibly put down the Yahoo’s throat.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I expressed my uneasiness at his giving me so often the appellation of Yahoo, an odious animal, for which I had so utter a hatred and contempt: I begged he would forbear applying that word to me, and make the same order in his family and among his friends whom he suffered to see me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)