Word Meanings - APPELLATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of appealing; appeal. Spenser. 2. The act of calling by a name. 3. The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation. They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates.

Additional info about word: APPELLATION

1. The act of appealing; appeal. Spenser. 2. The act of calling by a name. 3. The word by which a particular person or thing is called and known; name; title; designation. They must institute some persons under the appellation of magistrates. Hume. Syn. -- See Name.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of APPELLATION)

• Denomination
• Name
• designation
• description
• kind
• class
• order
• appellation
• Designation
• cognomination
• title
• fame
• reputation
• authority
• appointment
• stead
• representation
• Title
• Inscription
• heading
• denomination
• style
• distinction
• address
• epithet
• name

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of APPELLATION)

• Elude
• avoid
• shun
• ignore
• pass
• Misname
• miscall
• misdesignate
• misindicate
• hint
• suggest
• shadow
• adumbrate

Related words: (words related to APPELLATION)

• HEADSTALL
  That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
• TITLELESS
  Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
• CLASSIFIC
  Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
• HEADING
  A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift. (more info) 1. The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head. 2. That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of
• CLASSIFICATORY
  Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
• CLASSICISM
  A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• TITLED
  Having or bearing a title.
• HEADLAND
  1. A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water. "Sow the headland with wheat." Shak. 2. A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence. Tusser.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• STEAD
  OS. stad, stedi, OHG. stat, G. statt, stätte, Icel. staedhr, Dan. sted, Sw. stad, Goth. sta, and E. stand. *163. See Stand, and cf. 1. Place, or spot, in general. Chaucer. Fly, therefore, fly this fearful stead anon. Spenser. 2. Place or room
• CLASSIS
  An ecclesiastical body or judicat (more info) 1. A class or order; sort; kind. His opinion of that classis of men. Clarendon.
• HEADNOTE
  A note at the head of a page or chapter; in law reports, an abstract of a case, showing the principles involved and the opinion of the court.
• TITLER
  A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
• HEADFISH
  The sunfish .
• STYLET
  A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• SUGGESTION
  Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested;
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• BEASTLIHEAD
  Beastliness. Spenser.
• THORN-HEADED
  Having a head armed with thorns or spines. Thorn-headed worm , any worm of the order Acanthocephala; -- called also thornhead.
• PRELUDE
  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
• TORSION HEAD
  That part of a torsion balance from which the wire or filament is suspended.
• ARAEOSTYLE
  See INTERCOLUMNIATION
• ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
  A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
• BULLHEAD
  A small black water insect. E. Phillips. Bullhead whiting , the kingfish of Florida . (more info) A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• DUNDERHEAD
  A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.
• STEELHEAD
  A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
• PIG-HEADED
  Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn. B. Jonson. -- Pig"-head`ed*ness, n.