Definition of appellative Appellative

ap•pel•la•tive

We found 11 definitions of appellative from 4 different sources.

What does appellative mean?

Adjective
appellative - inclined to or serving for the giving of names; "the appellative faculty of children"; "the appellative function of some primitive rites"
		naming
		denotive, denotative having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming
appellative - pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun

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appellative (a.)
Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.
appellative (a.)
Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class.
appellative (n.)
A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.
appellative (n.)
An appellation or title; a descriptive name.