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appellational

appellational adjective: relating to appellation or naming.

Adjective

appellational (not comparable)

  1. Relating to appellation or naming.
    • It will, moreover, be convenient to keep a separate place (6) for names attributable to miscellaneous fancies; while, lastly (7), we shall speak of those appellational oddities which cease to be oddities, or become less odd than before, when they area rightly understood.1882, “Oddities of Personal Nomenclature”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume 45, page 213
    • From thy appellational womb / spew birth-gusts of great worms1995, Gregory Corso, “Bomb”, in John Bradley, editor, Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age, page 49

Origin of appellational

From appellation + -al.

Questions about appellational

What does appellational mean?
Appellational means relating to appellation or naming.
What part of speech is appellational?
Appellational is an adjective.

Words near appellational in the dictionary

  1. appellate
  2. appellate court
  3. appellate courts
  4. appellate jurisdiction
  5. appellation
  6. appellational
  7. appellations
  8. appellative
  9. appellative noun
  10. appellative nouns
  11. appellatively

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