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Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.

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  1. a. Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.
  2. a. class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/common">Common, as class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/opposed">opposed to proper; denominative of a class.
  3. n. A class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/common">common name, in class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/distinction">distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.
  4. n. An appellation or title; a descriptive name.
  5. adj. pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun
  6. adj. inclined to or serving for the giving of names
  7. n. word/identifying">identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
  8. 1. class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/pertaining">Pertaining to a class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/common">common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. Cudworth. 2. (gram.) Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class. 1. A common name, distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie. 2. An appellation or title; a descriptive name. God chosen it for one of his appellatives to be the Defender of them. Jer. Taylor.
  9. a. pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun s. inclined to or serving for the giving of names