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    SIGNIFIER

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify somethingplay

    Example:

    the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached

    Synonyms:

    descriptor; form; signifier; word form

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

    word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)

    Domain category:

    linguistics (the scientific study of language)

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

    plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

    singular; singular form (the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton)

    ghost word (a word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an error)

    base; radical; root; root word; stem; theme ((linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed)

    etymon; root (a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes)

    citation form; entry word; main entry word (the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary)

    abbreviation (a shortened form of a word or phrase)

    acronym; initialism (a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word)

    Derivation:

    signify (denote or connote)

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