signifier

Noun
  1. The phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something (synset 106301417)
    "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached"
    referred to in: linguistics - the scientific study of language
    is a type of: word - a unit of language that native speakers can identify
    subtypes:
    • plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
    • singular, singular form - the form of a word that is used to denote a singleton
    • ghost word - a word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an error
    • base, radical, root, root word, stem, theme - (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
    • etymon, root - a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
    • citation form, entry word, main entry word - the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary
    • abbreviation - a shortened form of a word or phrase
    • acronym, initialism - a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word
    same as: descriptor, form, word form

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