designations

Noun

designation (countable and uncountable, plural designations)

1. An act or instance of designating

   Synonyms:

   indication

2. Selection and appointment for a purpose or office.
   • His designation as chief justice was controversial.
3. That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.
   • The Romans evolved a quite different system of nomenclature, which in its classical form consisted of three names, the praenomen (e.g. Marcus), nomen (e.g. Tullius), and cognomen (e.g. Cicero), and two other designations (the name of the father and of the tribe): […]1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiv
4. Signification, meaning, for example of a word or phrase.
   • It doesn't list all the connotations that the term may have in various contexts: it specifies the designation of the term, or one of the designations of the term.1953, Jacob Hooper Wise, The Meaning in Reading
5. (obsolete) Purpose, aim, intention.
   • Deſignation, or Deſign, (Lat[in] and French) a purpoſing or contriving.[1658, Edward Phillips, compiler, “Designation”, in The New World of English Words: Or, A General Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Tyler, for Nath[aniel] Brook […], →OCLC, signature M, recto, column 1