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How to pronounce signification in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms import, meaning, significance
Type of substance, content, message, subject matter
Has types essence, gist, grammatical meaning, intension, intent, lesson, lexical meaning, moral, nicety, nuance, overtone, point, purport, referent, refinement, sense, shade, signified, spirit, subtlety, symbolisation, burden, symbolization, connotation, core, effect
Derivation signify


the signification of Chinese characters.

Examples of signification

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However, supposition was a different semantic relationship than signification.
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The correspondence between justitium and mourning here shows its true signification.
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Different ways of relating signs to their objects are called modes of signification.
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This signification has almost always been shaded with ambivalence.
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The Department of Corrections was also signification altered to focus on rehabilitating prisoners.
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The Agenda covers 23 areas where reforms can have the most signification impact on Ukraine's economy.
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Further, an emoticon borders on disallowing any signification, that process of redirection to meaning.
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Self immolation is a signification for the total erosion of hope that the youth in North Africa feel.
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As a rule they suggested the symbolic signification of this Hour, the prayer of the middle of the night.
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  • Meaning: the message that is intended or expressed or signified; "what is the meaning of this sentence"; "the significance of a red traffic light"; "the signification of Chinese characters"; "the import of his announcement was ambiguous"
  • (signify) mean: denote or connote; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means"
  • (signify) convey or express a meaning; "These words mean nothing to me!"; "What does his strange behavior signify?"
  • (signify) make known with a word or signal; "He signified his wish to pay the bill for our meal"
  • Signify is the fourth studio album by British progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, first released in September, 1996. It was the first album that frontman Steven Wilson recorded with a full group of musicians on board from the beginning. ...
  • (Signifying) Signifyin(g) (vernacular) is a practice in African American culture, involving a verbal strategy of indirection that exploits the gap between the denotative and figurative meanings of words.
  • (signified) The concept or idea evoked by a sign
  • (Signify) (v.): to declare yourself, to brag, to boast.
  • (Signify) a physical gesture using the fingers to indicate the number of the Form that is about to be demonstrated.