Simple past tense and past participle of designate.(verb)
Having a specified designation(adjective)
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Use "designated" in a sentence
"Both François Massialot, in Le Cuisinier roïal et bourgeois, and Menon, in Le Cuisinière bourgeoise, speak of the bourgeois kitchen as simple in style and limited in possibilities, but where special occasions required special efforts, indicating that for them the term designated a style of life and social position beneath that of the nobility."
"In its broadest extension the term designated the region south of Assuan, on the Upper Nile, now known as Nubia, Senaar, Kardofan, and Northern"
"When I first heard that the name designated to the implémentation of UNSR 1973 was 'ODYSSEY DAWN' I have to admit I was somewhat suprised."