DENOMINATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does denominate mean? 

• DENOMINATE (verb)
  The verb DENOMINATE has 1 sense:

1. assign a name or title to

  Familiarity information: DENOMINATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DENOMINATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they denominate    ... he / she / it denominates   
Past simple: denominated   
Past participle: denominated   
-ing form: denominating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assign a name or title to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

denominate; designate

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "denominate"):

denote (be a sign or indication of)

number (give numbers to)

label (assign a label to; designate with a label)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

denomination (identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others)

denomination (a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money)

denomination (a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith)

 Context examples 

I did try, but was presently swept off the stool and denominated "a little bungler."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It had given him a disgust to his business, and to his residence in a small market town; and, in quitting them both, he had removed with his family to a house about a mile from Meryton, denominated from that period Lucas Lodge, where he could think with pleasure of his own importance, and, unshackled by business, occupy himself solely in being civil to all the world.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

It is not my intention, he continued reading on, to enter on a detailed list, within the compass of the present epistle (though it is ready elsewhere), of the various malpractices of a minor nature, affecting the individual whom I have denominated Mr. W., to which I have been a tacitly consenting party.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Whereupon I told her not to mind his badinage; and she, on her part, evinced a fund of genuine French scepticism: denominating Mr. Rochester un vrai menteur, and assuring him that she made no account whatever of his contes de fee, and that du reste, il n'y avait pas de fees, et quand meme il y en avait: she was sure they would never appear to him, nor ever give him rings, or offer to live with him in the moon.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)