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Definition of Signify
1. Verb. Denote or connote. "An example sentence would show what this word means"
Specialized synonyms: Denote, Refer
Derivative terms: Meaning, Meaning, Sign, Signification, Signifier
2. Verb. Convey or express a meaning. "What does his strange behavior signify?"
Generic synonyms: Intend, Mean
Derivative terms: Sign, Sign, Sign, Sign, Significance, Significant
3. Verb. Make known with a word or signal. "He signified his wish to pay the bill for our meal"
Definition of Signify
1. v. t. To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be present.
Definition of Signify
1. Verb. To give (something) a meaning or an importance. ¹
2. Verb. To show one’s intentions with a sign etc. ¹
3. Verb. To mean; to betoken. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Signify
1. to make known [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Signify
Literary usage of Signify
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Among the Mexicans the word rancho came to signify the rude hut of posts, ...
In our language the word ranch is used to signify both large and small ..."
2. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson (1857)
"Ecclesia quippe ex vo- catione appellata est. S. A ugust. Expo», ad Бот. And though
they ordinarily take it primarily to signify ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... wife receiving support, under the name of alimony, during the severance.
on the bed of justice" came to signify the exertion of arbitrary power. ..."
4. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1843)
"... or any other Italian or Spanish teacher, you may do me a favour to signify it
in your letters. So I rest Yours in all love, Lambeth, Mai 27. R. REDMER. ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... the remonstrances ofjustice and policy, and it was the practice to signify,
by a hollow murmur, their dislike of such timid counsels. ..."
6. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"The conduct you have adopted in this instance is both contrary to law and the
general interest of his Majesty's colonies, and I am therefore to signify to ..."
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