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semantic information > denotation

Preferred term

denotation  

Type

  • Microstructure feature

  • owl:NamedIndividual

Broader concept

Description

  • an aspect of meaning that relates a word or phrase to the thing it expresses, i.e. what a sense of a lexical unit actually refers to; also called referential meaning, cognitive meaning, reference. This is the usual topic of the definition while the more subjective or emotive aspects (connotation) are not described.
  • translation of a sign to its literal meaning, more or less like dictionaries try to define it

In other languages

  • denotazio

    Basque

  • Денотация

    Bulgarian

  • denotació

    Catalan

  • extensió
  • Denotace

    Czech

  • denotation

    Danish

  • denotativ betydning
  • grundbetydning
  • denotatie

    Dutch

  • denotatsioon

    Estonian

  • tähistus
  • Denotaatio

    Finnish

  • dénotation

    French

  • Denotación

    Galician

  • Denotation

    German

  • denotáció

    Hungarian

  • jelölet
  • denotazione

    Italian

  • referenza
  • significato
  • denotacija

    Lithuanian

  • bokstavelig

    Norwegian Bokmål

  • bokstaveleg

    Norwegian Nynorsk

  • Denotacja

    Polish

  • denotação

    Portuguese

  • denotație

    Romanian

  • semnificație
  • обозначение

    Russian

  • называние
  • денотација

    Serbian

  • denotación

    Spanish

  • extensión
  • Denotation

    Swedish

  • Денотація

    Ukrainian

URI

http://w3id.org/meta-share/lexmeta/denotation

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