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Definition of "signified" [signified]

  • Linguistics The concept that a signifier denotes. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "signified" in a sentence
  • "Initially, the label signified that 100% of the wood used in a product was harvested by sustainable methods."
  • "Let animal be the term signified by A, mortal by B, and immortal by C, and let man, whose definition is to be got, be signified by D."
  • "I had been taught that “itis” at the end of a word signified some kind of inflammation and I was exposed to the insight that “gastr” was supposed to make you think about stomachs; so I creatively surmised correctly that the word “gastritis” might well relate to inflammation of the stomach."