SIGNIFIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does signified mean? 

• SIGNIFIED (noun)
  The noun SIGNIFIED has 1 sense:

1. the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted

  Familiarity information: SIGNIFIED used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIGNIFIED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

sense; signified

Context example:

the signifier is linked to the signified

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

import; meaning; significance; signification (the message that is intended or expressed or signified)

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

acceptation; word meaning; word sense (the accepted meaning of a word)

 Context examples 

He signified that he was done with the discussion, and turned to Ruth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The name and its magic signified nothing to him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Had she been a person of consequence herself, he would have come I dare say; and it would not have signified whether he did or no.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She rose with an air of dignity to leave the room, when Mr. Peggotty signified that it was needless.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The bay mares seemed to know what that white puff in front of us signified, and they stretched themselves like greyhounds.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To him it signified death.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The letter was written in an odd, upright hand and signed “Edward Hyde”: and it signified, briefly enough, that the writer’s benefactor, Dr. Jekyll, whom he had long so unworthily repaid for a thousand generosities, need labour under no alarm for his safety, as he had means of escape on which he placed a sure dependence.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This last argument, however, by no means commended itself to the pupil of Ockham, who plucked a great stick from the ground and signified his dissent by smiting the realist over the pate with it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So easily pleased—so little discerning;—what signified her praise?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Littimer, without being at all discomposed, signified by a slight obeisance, that anything that was most agreeable to us was most agreeable to him; and began again.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)