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Referent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A person or thing to which a linguistic expression refers.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The specific entity in the world that a word or phrase identifies or denotes.

n. That which is referenced.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Referring; containing a reference; noting one of two terms which have a certain relation to each other. The referent is the term from which the relation proceeds.

n. One who is referred to; a referee.

n. A word which refers to another.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. having reference

n. something that refers; a term that refers to another term

n. something referred to; the object of a reference

n. the first term in a proposition; the term to which other terms relate

Word Usage

"The hope is that, for a second person, that warning cry would produce the same referent, in other words, trigger the alarming thought “A cheetah is coming!”"

Equivalent

denotative denotive

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

term

Form

English words derived from: referent

Same Context

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