Definition of "designates" []

• Plural form of designate. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of designate. (verb)

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• "We have now to go on to the much lengthier and more involved matter of what the term designates, whether within a given artistic period, a given style, a given artistic genre, or a given single work of art."
• "At the present day, the term designates the religious communion which survived the destruction of the Jewish nation by the Assyrians and the Babylonians."
• "In its widest sense the term designates not only the sacred texts, but also the voluminous theological and philosophical literature attached thereto, the"