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Definition of Signified
1. Noun. The meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted. "The signifier is linked to the signified"
Generic synonyms: Import, Meaning, Significance, Signification
Specialized synonyms: Acceptation, Word Meaning, Word Sense
Definition of Signified
1. Noun. (context: linguistics structuralism) The concept or idea evoked by a sign. ¹
2. Verb. (past of ''signify'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Signified
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Signified
Literary usage of Signified
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1905)
"The King's consent signified ; and Bill reported from the Select Committee, with
Amendments. Bangor (County Down) Water and Improvement Bill [HL]. ..."
2. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1905)
"Southend and Colchester Light Railways Bill [Lords] (King's Consent signified).
Read the third time, and passed, with Amendments. ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Relative worship is paid to a sign, not at all for its own sake, but for the sake
of the thing signified. The sign in itself is nothing, but it shares the ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... which they were directed to execute, and he was commanded not to oppose.
Constantius signified his pleasure that four entire legions—the ..."
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