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appellation

noun
/ˌæpəˈleɪʃən/US

Etymology

From late Middle English appellacion, from Old French apellatiun, from Latin appellātiō (“a naming”).

  1. derived from appellātiō
  2. derived from apellatiun
  3. inherited from appellacion

Definitions

  1. A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified

    A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified; a designation.

    • Russian River flows through a country of hill ridges, which in many places are dignifiable with the appellation of mountains.
    • Gentlemen of the jury, what is a father, a real father, what does this great word mean, what terribly great idea is contained in this appellation?

  2. A geographical indication for wine that describes its geographic origin.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at appellation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at appellation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at appellation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA